hook and paint same with Pearson's Creolin or tincture of 

 iron. The pox will not come in the eyes if split in the roof of 

 the mouth and nostrils are kept clean. The whole thing is, 

 it is "the care of the chicken that pays." 



PROCESSING BARLEY FOR CHICKEN FEED 



To avoid having green mold accumulate on the barley as 

 it is dampened, if you will but use % of a tablespoonful of 

 Parke Davis & Company's Kreso Dip to each 20 gallons of 

 fresh water, it will be prevented. 



The barley should be put in a tub or vat with an outlet at 

 the bottom and should be kept under water for 24 hours, 

 then drain and take out and put in trays similar to fruit 

 trays with numerous small holes in the bottom to admit 

 water running through. Throw sacks over barley and run 

 fresh water through it twice a day for four days. One should 

 be very careful to keep barley covered with water the first 

 day and do not use any more Kreso Dip than is advocated. 

 It is claimed by some that this manner of treating barley is 

 also good to eliminate worms in poultry flocks. 



Another splendid method of processing barley is to take 

 one teaspoonful of Formaldahyde to each three gallons of 

 water. Use same methods as in using Kreso Dip. One poul- 

 try man with a flock of some 1800 birds used this method 

 and found it to be very efficient and also had very little 

 illness in the flock and the egg yield from this same flock 

 was far above the average. 



WHY HENS DO NOT LAY MORE EGGS 



Since the days when hens first began, this has been a 

 much mooted question. To begin with, it is the strain of the 

 bird that tells the whole story, plus good management, good 

 housing, good feed, and the care of the bird. It has come to 

 the point where there is too much inbreeding, cross breed- 

 ing, etc., that the stock has become run down. The introduc- 

 tion of White Rocks, White Minorcas, Black Minorcas, and 

 other breeds crossed has simply produced "white chickens" 

 and not laying hens, and we now find a larger percentage of 

 culls or non-producers than ever before. Another thing, a 

 great many hatcheries in their anxiety to supply the trade 

 with baby chicks, have hatched from pullet eggs, with no 



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