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A Good Tonic for Poultry 



Generally called Douglass Mixture. 



A good and cheap tonic for chickens is composed of one pound of cop- 

 peras, two gallons of soft water and one ounce of sulphuric acid, a tea- 

 spoonful being added to each quart of drinking water. This should be 

 kept in a jug and properly labeled "poison." 



Grit for Poultry 



Grit is absolutely necessary for poultry. It should be kept with 

 crushed oyster shell and charcoal in boxes constantly before them. They 

 must have something during confinement in bad weather, especially, to en- 

 able them to assimilate their food. Broken crockery or china make good 

 grit if gravel cannot be obtained Oyster shell is indispeusible. 



Dust Bath 



A dust bath should be provided in one corner of a room, well supplied 

 with air. This bath should consist of slacked lime, ashes, road dust, a 

 little sulphur and a little lice killer sprinkled over it. 



Put one teaspoohtul of Mrs, Johnson's Compound in each quart of 

 water and give to chicks with dysentery. It is a good tonic at any time. 



Over=fat Fowls 



Do not keep your breeding stock too fat, as the eggs from fat fowls 

 give poor hatches. Give fowls plenty of exercise. If birds have free range 

 feed but once a day; if no range is available feed fresh, clean food three 

 times a day and feed plenty of green stuff, lettuce, cabbage, celery, or any- 

 thing that they will eat. Give plenty of fresh water three times a day. 

 Cut straw, leaves or hay should be thrown upon the floor to the depth of 

 three or four inches and in this the food thrown, to encourage exercise. 



Charred Bone 



Charred bone as well as charred corn is good for poultry, for the sake 

 of the charcoal it contains, which is very beneficial to them in aiding diges- 

 tion; but charred bone does not possess the full value of raw bone on ac- 



