10 lbs. Powdered Copperas (Iron Sulphates) 

 10 lbs. Epsom Salts. 

 50 lbs. Charcoal (fine). 

 50 lbs. Fine Ground Bone. 

 Mix 5 lbs. to 200 lbs. dry mash for 500 hens. 



A GOOD TONIC FOR HENS 



One-half teaspoon of Venetian Red to each hen in mash 

 once a week. 

 FOR WARTS AND POX— AN ADDITIONAL REMEDY 



Dissolve 11/^ oz. of Boric Acid to 1 oz. of Biborate of 

 Soda in a quart of warm water. For Chicken Pox apply to 

 denuded tissues with medicine dropper or pledget of cotton. 

 Also a 2% solution of Creolin or Lysol may be used. 



For canker put Chlorate of Potash in drinking water or 

 use Flour of Sulphur in the mouth and after removing the 

 canker paint with iodine or use 1/10 iodine and 9/10 gylc- 

 erine. This may be applied by stripping a feather almost to 

 the end or using the same as the swab. 



ALL IN ONE FEED— IS IT RIGHT OR WRONG? 



The idea of an all in one feed is not entirely new, and 

 there are a great many arguments pro and con, as regards 

 the same. To the writer's mind, an all in one Teed is O. K. 

 under certain conditions and circumstances, but it furnishes 

 a wide and varied latitude of using up everything that goes 

 to make up a feed for poultry, as it were, a sort of potpouri. 

 Personally, I would prefer to feed poultry in a regular way, 

 that is to say, whether young or old, feed a balanced ration, 

 according to the size of the flock, the housing conditions, 

 whether enclosed or free range. Every poultry keeper knows 

 that a breeding hen should be fed differently and handled 

 different from a straight commercial hen. Also the lighter 

 breeds can handle more animal protein than the heavier 

 breeds, etc., etc. Also in the matter of greens, you positively 

 must know the amount of animal protein being fed to feed 

 greens intelligently to poultry. 



In concluding this book, the writer hopes that to those who 

 have read it, that much good has come to them. The idea 

 in writing this book was for the uplifting of the poultry 

 business in particular and the helping of all persons engaged 

 in the same. This work will probably be supplemented at 

 some future time by other books written with the idea of 

 keeping abreast with the times. 



W. C. DE LAPP. 

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