Hubbard's poultry secrets. 85 



scaly legs. 



There is nothing that looks so bad as to see a flock of birds 

 with scaly legs, and once it gets into your flock it takes a lot 

 of work to get it out. Even if the breeding stock is free from 

 scaly legs, one has to be careful when he buys sitting hens 

 from the farmers, that they are free from them. 



The best way I have ever seen to keep down this trouble 

 and keep the shanks of your young and old stock in good con- 

 dition is to take a shallow pan that is just two-thirds of the 

 height of the bird's shanks, fill it almost full of water, and 

 then pour just enough kerosene in the water to cover the top 

 surface of the water. Then place the pan in front of the 

 opening of the coop where your chickens come out so they 

 will have to step both feet into the oil and water. Do this once 

 a month and your birds will always be free from scaly legs. 

 One pan is all that it is necessary to use for treating the whole 

 flock. It might be well to leave the pan empty the first day 

 and fill it with water and oil the next morning. By treating 

 them in this way their shanks will always be in the best of 

 condition. 



Equal parts of lard and sulphur moistened with a little ker- 

 osene is another good treatment. This will do the work well, 

 but as it necessitates the handling of each bird separately, 

 where there is a large flock to go over, the work becomes very 

 tedious. 



HOW THE AMATEUR IS BEATEN IN THE SHOW 

 ROOM BY THE FAKIR. 



We always have had, and always will have, I am sorry to 

 say, fakirs to contend with in the Show Room. As a rule, 

 fakirs are not all-around high class chicken men. One of 



