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Salt is an essential part of the poultry ration. One of the best ways to 

 give it is to mix it with soft food. In this way it will make the food more 

 palatable as well as assist in digestion and keep the hens in good condition. 

 A small quantity daily is much better in every way than a large quantity 

 occasionally. 



Always keep the hens supplied with green food as late in the season as 

 it can possibly be done by turning them out to secure any such that may 

 be within their reach. When the supply is failing put cabbage in the 

 poultry yard. After snow covers the ground, feed alfalfa meal, fine chaff 

 or sweepings of the hay loft. 



A bone cutter was once thought a luxury, but is now considered an 

 absolute necessity. You can not make a commercial success of poultry 

 without one. If you feed green cut bone to your fowls, the increase in the 

 egg product will pay for a bone cutter in a very short time, besides it will 

 keep up the vitality of your breeding stock and make more fertile eggs. 



Worms in the windpipe are the cause of gaps. One can ofttimes re- 

 move them with a horse hair. Double the horse hair and make a loop, in- 

 sert it into the windpipe, then draw it out, repeat this several times. If 

 the worms are not too far down the windpipe, you can get them every one. 

 You cannot give your fowls medicine strong enough to remove the 

 worms without injury to the bird. 



There is one valuable advantage of keeping poultry on the farm that 

 is generally overlooked and that is the vast number of insects destroyed 

 by them. If you will plant plum trees around your poultry house you will 

 alway have plums. The hens destroy the larvae of insects that infest 

 plum trees. The trees furnish shade that is very necessary for chickens 

 in hot weather. You should utilize every foot of ground in a poultry yard 

 for fruit trees. 



Dear reader, are you desirous of bettering your condition financially 

 and thus enjoy a little more of this world's happiness, seeing your family 

 prosperous and contented and adding each day a little more to this world's 

 store? Would you like a business in which you can become your own 

 master, direct your own affairs and in short be independent? If so, I 

 would advise you to go into the poultry business. There is more profit in 

 it considering the money invested and the labor required, than in any other 

 enterprise you can engage in. It takes a young fortune to equip yourself 

 ' for farming, and another fortune to pay rent. And what have you left at 

 the end of the year after your expenses are all paid? A meager living, 

 lost hopes, a discouraged soul, and a yearning for something better. 



