HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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in. Even late November plantings will 
give you spring blossoms in rich and fra¬ 
grant luxuriance. It is good to make gar¬ 
dens in the South, for one can go to sleep 
and wake up in midwinter and still have a 
spring garden—but, it is the wide-awake 
gardener who gets the earliest flowers and 
the best of the lot. 
Poultry in the Suburbs 
W HILE there is a certain percentage 
of luck and chance with raising 
poultry as with other pursuits, yet the one 
who succeeds must study up well to start 
out in his vocation. One misstep often 
means a lot of time and money wasted. 
Especially is this true in relation to incu¬ 
bators. 
After moving to our country home we 
decided to invest in an incubator, which 
we set with fifty eggs. We managed to 
get a good hatch, hut, oh, the care of an 
incubator to a novice! My wife often 
waked me from a deep sleep to take a 
peek at the thermometer, for, somehow, 
this particular incubator had a way of 
fluctuating, and we could not depend on 
the self-regulator, because we were new 
at the business. To such as we, I declared 
it was more nightly trouble than a wake¬ 
ful baby in the house. 
The eggs we had set and hatched were 
of the silver-lace Wyandotte breed, and 
we killed off all cockerels, and by Novem¬ 
ber had fourteen pullets, which started to 
lay that month and kept at it all winter 
and all spring, when not sitting, for we 
went back to bens for hatching. In Jan¬ 
uary we received sixty cents a dozen for 
some eggs. In February we secured 230 
eggs from the pen. The hens were laying 
every day as late as July. 
Of course, to get eggs like this, correct 
feeding is the main thing, though a good 
breed counts. Do not feed too much corn ; 
by killing a cockerel now and then you 
can “keep tab” on their interior physical 
condition. 
Give plenty of green feed. Alfalfa meal 
makes a splendid mash for every season. 
If the chickens haven’t clover in their 
runs, go foraging f( r them and secure it 
for them. Kale or cabbage for winter is 
a good green feed. 
Our mainstay for feeding is a balanced 
ration, supplied by our local poultry sup¬ 
ply house. This contains corn, wheat, 
oats, Kaffir corn, barley, millet, sunflower 
seed, etc., in the right proportion for an 
ideal feed. 
Charcoal, grit and fresh drinking water 
must not be neglected. And for laying 
hens, the oyster shell (crushed) is indis¬ 
pensable. 
We have faith that the silver-lace Wyan- 
dottes are unsurpassed as a general-pur¬ 
pose breed. Laying in winter as well as 
spring and summer, good mothers, yet not 
overbroody, a good table bird, rapid in 
maturing, healthy and hardy — these are 
their characteristics and those that go to 
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