pouring over it sour milk or semi-solid buttermilk to kill the 

 taste of the tobacco. Repeat in ten days, then every six 

 months and repeat. 



In addition, feed for laying hens should consist of a well 

 balanced mash with a high animal protein and plenty of 

 green feed. The morning meal should consists of any good 

 scratch feed thrown in a litter or buried in the earth, so that- 

 they must work to obtain same. Dry mash should be left 

 before them at all times. The evening meal should consist of 

 scratch feed, principally wheat if obtainable, with cracked 

 corn or milo throughout the winter. Give them what they 

 will clean up in twenty minutes, which is sufficient for a feed. 

 As to green feed — barley in the winter time and sudan grass 

 in the summer time, make the very best greens, although 

 clover, alfalfa, mangel beets, kale, cabbage, lettuce, lawn 

 clippings, and many other greens may be used. Feed greens 

 twice a day. 



The houses should be kept well ventilated, but free from 

 draughts of air, and also the houses at all times should be 

 thoroughly disinfected. Drinking crocks should be kept 

 thoroughly clean and chickens should not be allowed to 

 drink out of dirty pools. 



It is alright to put electric lights on chickens in winter 

 time, but these should not be turned on too early in the 

 morning. Four o'clock is early enough. 



Now as to culling — ^many people are carrying in their 

 poultry flocks at least ten percent absolute culls, which are 

 non-producers, also slackers, and loafers. It is a good plan 

 to cull every month in the year, that is to say, take out those 

 hens that are not producing. Anyone with a trained eye can 

 pick a cull hen out of a flock at any time during the year. A 

 general culling should take place about the middle of Septem- 

 ber and save only capalcity hens. Early molters will make 

 good layers later on but it does not pay to carry a hen that 

 is a liability rather than an asset with the consequent high 

 price of feed that would otherwise be consumed by hens 

 producing a goodly number of eggs. I would not keep any 

 hen in the flock that would not produce 140 eggs per year. 



THE CARE OF THE CHICKEN 



The person who goes into the poultry business thinking, 

 that all will be a pathway of roses, makes a tremendous mis- 

 take. There are many shoals and rocks that are hidden from 



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