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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
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In Arm; of Poultry 
Will Help Win Ik War 
Uncle Sam Says: 
“The Nation’s meat supply is short. 
“Chickens are the quickest meat crop that can be produced. 
“Chickens require no large cash outlay. 
“We need an increase of one hundred million pounds of poultry this year. 
“Wisconsin’s share is three and a half million pounds. 
“Will you raise a bigger flock?” 
Raise More Chickens — It Pays and It’s Patriotic 
But the big waste in poultry comes through losses after the chicks are hatched. It is a crime against the Nation’s meat 
supply to let a chick die that has eaten some of the farmer’s feed and used up some of his energy. Save your chicks. 
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Right now before you go home 
Buy a can of insect powder — be sure it’s 
fresh — and some vaseline. 
Have you any coal tar disinfectant? 
And how about a good egg crate so you can mar* 
ket your eggs without waste? 
Unless you have a supply of buttermilk or sour 
milk, stop and get a sack of meat scrap. 
Tonight when you get home 
Let the boys do your chores while you 
grease the heads of the baby chicks, and 
dust the setting hens with that insect powder. 
Then tomorrow, clean the coop and paint the 
roosts with kerosene or coal tar disinfectant. That 
will kill the mites. 
Town Folks — 
Start a Flock! 
Keep a dozen hens in the 
back yard. 
Feed them your table 
scraps, your lawn clip- 
pings, and garden waste. 
Read all the good advice 
you can get. 
Write to the College ol 
Agriculture, Madison. 
They will be glad to help 
you. 
their crops at night — good layers are good feeders. 
Sell all small, long-headed, late-hatched pullets. 
Feed some buttermilk, sour milk, or meat 
scraps. 
Give them free range — but fence in the 
garden. 
Feed regularly a variety of good, clean feed. 
Keep a dry mash before the hens at all times. 
Use 2 pounds of ground feed, 1 pound bran, 1 pound 
middlings, and one pound of meat scrap if milk is not 
available. 
Provide plenty of house room for the growing chicks. 
Sell or shut up all roosters after May 15. The 
rooster makes eggs fertile— fertile eggs spoil. 
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Have the boy* provide a clean, well-littered 
nest for every five hens. 
That will prevent dirty and broken eggs. Have 
them gather the eggs twice daily, and pack them in 
that egg crate in a cool, dry cellar or milk room. 
Market them at least once a week. Don’t let the 
s un hit them on the way to msLrket. 
Why not market or eat the poor laying 
hens and all but a very few roosters? 
You can tell your poor layers. They molt in the 
summer (good ones molt in the fall). They sit on the 
roost late in the morning and early at night. Feel 
Of course this means a little extra work, but eggs and poultry are going to be high 
“More Food This Year Is Patriotism” 
Any questions you care to ask will be answered by 
Agricultural Experiment Station, The University of Wisconsin, Madison 
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