14 PROFIT WITH POULTRY 



providing everything about the place is kept fresh 

 and clean and the hens are given lots of straw to 

 exercise in. Nearly everybody handy with tools can 

 build a neat little henhouse 6x8 or purchase the 

 portable kind sold by poultry supply houses. 



If you should live in a district where the neighbors 

 do not appreciate the musical notes of the crowing 

 cock at morn it would be well not to keep any male 

 birds at all. The hens will lay just as well without 

 a lord and master to call them to their meals, and 

 sterile eggs will keep better than those containing a 

 fertile germ. Those who keep hens in this manner 

 can purchase baby chicks each spring to keep up their 

 flocks and kill or dispose of all the crowers as soon 

 as they show signs of getting boisterous. 



Hens closely confined must be given sufficient 

 exercise in an artificial way, and must have lots of 

 fresh air. Deep litter feeding and open front houses 

 will supply both of these necessities. Keep the hens 

 scratching and keep the henhouse well ventilated. 

 Fowls in close confinement also must receive a 

 greater variety of feed, and more care than fowls 

 which have unlimited range. 



Fowls running on range find many things benefi- 

 cial to them, which must be supplied in some other 

 form when kept in small inclosures. One of these 

 things are insects, which find a substitute in beef 

 scraps, green cut bone, or blood meal. Another 

 item is grit — poultry on farms find sharp gravel and 



