Evening star., 1916-03-19
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POULTRY YARD NOTES.

are above the nests. and the custom
is to sand the boards. small stones
often drop into the nest and breakage
results when newly laid eggs fall upon
them. The condition of nests should
be noticed daily, and the nesting ma
terial replenished when necessary.
Plenty of nesting material prevents
breakage and insures clean eggs.
An ample and clean litter on the
floor is also very essential when an
Al clean product is sought. Partic-
ularly is this true when the hens are
allowed outdoors during wet weather.
The litter acts as a food mat for the
hens on their way to the nests. Clean
eggs bring better prices than dirty
ones.
There are many medicines for roup,
and with strict quarantine and disin-
fectant in the drinking water the
simplest cures are often the best and
surest. but here is one that is worth
trying. When you use this you omit
the disinfectant from the water. al
lowing all, sick and well, to drink it,
but never the sick with the well. re-
member. Give this Harer to them in
their hospitals. Get the druggist to
ture of iron, two drains tincture of
aconite, two drains tincture of bella
donna. Add to this four ounces Of
water and, after shaking well, put a
iu1l lSdSpOOnIul TO eacn quart or drink
ing water. This is L, pe relied on in
severe colds and also in roup if you
dot not let it set the start of you in
the flock.
1t has been proved by experiments
that impurities given off from the
| lungs of one animal are much more
poisonous to another animal than they
are to the animal giving them off.
You can prove this for your own
satisfaction, if you care to. Put a
mouse in a self-sealing fruit jar and
| make the cover tight. In few min
utes he Will begin to show signs of
suffocation. Then without admitting
any more fresh air than you can help,
introduce second mouse into the
jar. This second mouse will die before
the first one, though he was fresh when
the first one was nearly suffocated.
The reason for this is that the second
mouse did not die of suffocation, but
was killed by the poison given off from
| the lungs of the first one. 1t is entirely
| possible that this is the reason why so
many hens in apparently good physical
| thrift drop dead off the roost The
ventilation is poor and the birds be-
| come poisoned by the gases from the
lungs of their perchmates
! 1t will be worth an experiment to
| assert eggs before selling them. by
separating the dark-colored eggs from
| those that are light and also having
| the different sizes together.
| Appearance is worth great deal in
| the selling of an article, and eggs will
| sell quicker than anything else if sent
| 10 market in an attractive manner,
| which adds at least ne-fourth more
| to the prices.
| II is important that we should keep
| an account with the poultry and know
| Just what they are doing. When all
| Kinds of feed are SO high priced and
| can be sold, fed to advantage to
| other stock. we cannot afford to keep
| a large stock of poultry at a loss. If
poultry is not making you profit,
| remedy the difficulty and get profit.
| or else keep only enough poultry TO
supply the family.
! Lice live upon the bodies of the poul-
! try. They deposit their eggs in the
! plumage, generally near the vent, and
live upon the scurf. dead skin and
| feathers. To get rid of them remedies
| must be applied to the bird.
| The late-hatched chicks will not do
! well after winter sets in ANA they are
| quartered with the mature birds. Bet
! ter sell them before cold weather and
| give the room they would occupy to the
] winter layers and breeders.
! Don't neglect to have supply of
/, charcoal before the layers at all times.
| 1t helps to keep the flock healthy.
The chicks constitution is made be-
! fore the egg that is hatched is laid.
! Hens must not be allowed to become
| too fat before the breeding season.