SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
In fact, the difference in cost is only a 
little extra care and attention, for the 
food cost will be about the same whether 
the flock lays or not. 
In addition to clean, warm houses and 
proper food, give them sunshine, dust- 
baths, and plenty of room. If your flock 
is crowded and you can not afford 
more buildings, a part of them should 
be sold, for a crowded flock will never 
prove satisfactory. 
There will be found 
individuals in every flock 
that are prone to acquire bad habits, such 
as feather-pulling and egg-eating. Hens 
sometimes form the habit of pulling 
feathers from themselves and from their 
mates and eating them. This habit is not 
very apt to develop, however, if the birds 
are well cared for and properly fed on 
well-balanced rations. Should you dis- 
cover any with either of these bad habits, 
they should be disposed of at once. 
The loafers of the flock are the ones 
that are the most apt to develop the bad 
habits, and if you, by means of the trap- 
nest and close attention to your flock, will 
dispose of all of these loafers, there will 
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