Poultry Hints 



Feed alfalfa meal in winter. 



Air castles like eggs are easily crushed. 



All classes of poultry are fond of fresh ground bone. 



Close application to every detail makes success sure. 



Grit, fresh water and bone meal for health and eggs. 



Hot, strong whitewash on a wall is light, sweet and cheap. 



Allowing the fowls to drink impure water is inviting disease. 



Have all brood coops well made, as they should last for years. 



In the poultry business, common sense is the thing most needed. 



The chick whose life blood is being sucked by vermin cannot thrive. 



A saturated solution of boracic acid is good for swelled heads and eyes. 



Clean, dry quarters are needed for health in summer as well as in 

 winter. 



Eaw corn meal mixed up with water is not a proper food tor young 

 chicks. 



Scatter fresh slacked lime liberally over the hen house; it will aid in 

 preventing disease. 



Keep your poultry house clean. Then you will always have healthy 

 chickens. 



Flat perches are best, because they are more comfortable for the feet 

 of the fowls. 



Dark-shelled eggs have proved harder to test for fertility than light- 

 shelled ones. 



Slacked lime placed in the drinking vessels will often cure the hens of 

 laying eggs shell-less. 



Insect depredations are like weeds; they can be kept in check by pre- 

 venting their getting a start. 



Ducks are cholera proof, roup proof, gape proof and hawk proof, but 

 will sometimes die of spinal meningitis and paralysis. 



