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Cleaning the Hen House 
Ma Supervises While Pa Follows Instructions 
/"ANE very rarely sees a group of farm ularly every year on hen house cleaning 
N-' buildings without a henhouse among r ' ,oTr .1 — l„ ~~ 
them. And while occasionally it may be a 
nondescript affair, large enough to hold 
only a few hens as a general thing it is a 
sizeable building housing a flourishing 
sideline that returns a goodly profit in the 
course of the year. 
But big or little, old or new, it has to be 
cleaned from top to bottom every fall 
and put in good repair for the winter and 
there’s the rub. 
More often than not, as in our case, 
mother is head of the poultry enterprise 
with father as working partner and chief 
beneficiary and as early as September 1, 
she nearly every day mentions with grow¬ 
ing insistence the need of having it done, 
but it is a job nobody loves and with 
farm work pressing hard it is put off from 
week to week until she finally takes the 
matters firmly in hand by inquiring, 
“What’s to hinder having the hen house 
cleaned today? It will soon be October 
and the pullets are coming on so fast that 
they must be settled in winter quarters 
without any more delay. Can’t we go 
right at it this morning?” 
Prepare Lime Ahead 
“Well, no, not today,” Dlad thinks. 
But a morning or two after he says, 
“This is hen house day, mother. Going 
to come out and help?” Oh yes, she’ll be 
day. The other 364 days he is just as 
enthusiastic about the hen business as she 
is.—N ancy Knight, New York. 
Give the Hens Enough Nests 
Tfy^HEN I started with a small flock of 
* ' hens, I put up in different parts of 
the chicken house what I considered a 
sufficient number of nests. But it did not 
take me long to learn that the hens seemed 
to have one or two favorite nests and I 
often found as many as three hens 
crowded on one. 
As a consequence, the straw would be 
thrown out and often one or two eggs 
were broken. Coming at a time when 
eggs were bringing a high price, I figured 
it was more economical to put up addi¬ 
tional nests than to have an egg or two 
broken and wasted almost every day. 
Instead of adding a nest here and there, 
I changed the entire nesting arrangement, 
placing the nests side by side and putting 
them up where there was the least light. 
That stopped the fight for particular 
nests. 
A nest to six or eight hens is supposed 
to be about the proper proportion, but I 
believe it pays to put up a few more. 
The majority of hens lay in the forenoon 
and often a number of them take a notion 
to lay at the same time. When a hen has 
there as soon as she can, and dad goes her mind set on laying, she’s going to lay, 
and if she can’t find a nest she will lay 
elsewhere. That is one reason why eggs 
are often found in the litter, where they 
become either broken or dirty. Two ad¬ 
vantages in having the nests together are 
economy in nest material and the saving 
in footsteps when gathering eggs.—W. C. 
Muilenbebg. 
along out and begins operations by 
putting some lime to slacking. Two gal¬ 
lons of water to ten pounds of lime is 
about the right proportion and it is 
stirred a few minutes until slacking is 
well started. Then it is covered with 
some bags and left to finish by itself while 
he ‘Tassels” with the first part of the job 
proper. 
Everything removable—nests, hoppers, 
dust boxes, water pails, perches and 
dropping boards are taken outside and 
the cobwebs and dust swept from ceiling 
and walls with a good stiff broom and 
mindful of mother’s searching eyes, not a 
cranny nor corner is slighted. Next the 
litter is wheeled out and the floor scraped 
clean with hoe and shovel and finished off 
with a vigorous sweeping. 
Ma Surveys the Work 
By the time the dust is settled mother 
appears and says he is getting along fa¬ 
mously and please don’t forget there’s 
some window panes that are only tacked 
in and need to be puttied, the roof leaks in 
two places, one end of the doorstep is 
loose and two or three frames must have 
new cloth tacked on. She’ll bring the 
cheese cloth and tacks out after a while 
but must run in now and see if her pie is 
done and start dinner. 
Dad thins and strains the slacked lime 
and pours in some crude carbolic acid, 
hunts up the sprayer and begins white- 
wasliing, finishing up right after dinner. 
As soon as the dishes are washed, out 
comes mother with suds, brush and cloth 
and windows are washed and waterpails 
scrubbed while outside dad sprays nests 
and dropping boards and paints the 
roosts with wornout motor oil. 
Next he does the tinkering mother 
spoke about and some besides and by the 
time everything is back in place and new 
litter on the floor it is pretty near chore 
time and mother in fresh gingham ap¬ 
pears on the scene again to say that sup¬ 
per is ready and to give the completed 
work high praise—and it does look good 
with the sunlight slanting in through the 
clean windows and the hens straggling 
cautiously in peeking all about and 
scratching in the fresh straw. White 
with lime, full of dust and dog-tired, dad 
only growls that it is by all odds the 
meanest job on the farm and that if it had 
to be done more than once a year he’d sell 
every hen on the place before tomorrow 
night, but mother knows better than to 
take him seriously. Past experience has 
taught her that such an attack is due reg- 
Cull Scrub Pullets to Boost 
Production 
T^GGS from runty pullets are as rare 
-LT as golden eggs from geese these days. 
That is why it pays to get rid of runty 
pullets and so. fatten up the flocks 
production average. Culling pullets, as 
some seem to think, is not a weighty, 
intricate problem, a job requiring occult 
powers- Any ordinary human being with 
a fair share of horse-sense can do it. 
“Culling the pullets,” according to 
G. S. Vickers of the Ohio College of 
Agriculture, “is nothing but getting out 
the runts and scrubs. Last week, for 
instance, I saw a fine bunch of. late March 
Leghorns just coming into production. 
Among them were a couple that weighed 
only 13^2 pounds each. They were clearly 
culls. Remove such birds and you have 
your pullets culled. 
“When pullets are being housed, as 
they should be, early in October, watch 
for signs of worms, tuberculosis, and 
colds. A good way to treat a cold is to 
stick the chicken’s head into a can of 
kerosene. It won’t hurt the chicken, and 
it will help kill the cold.” 
A Creditable Pullet Record 
HTHE items we have published about 
* early pullets have created quite a bit 
of interest. We received dozens of letters 
from subscribers, telling of their success 
with early-laying’ pullets. Mr. A. H. 
Hotaling of West Lebanon, N. Y., writes 
that he had a utility White Leghorn pullet 
in April and in 3^ months she laid her 
first egg. But more interesting still is 
Mr. Hotaling’s note that from a flock of 
115 pullets hatched on June 19 he had an 
egg record of 2,700 eggs and the birds 
were housed in no up-to-date hen house. 
That is quite a record for pullets. Part 
of this can be explained by the fact that 
Mr. Hotaling culls his flock thoroughly 
every year, and consequently he has 
gradually built up a flock of heavy 
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