, 1918-06-06
for Layers Are Shade,
Clean Water, Fresh Air and
Proper Food.
Gull VEGETABLES
Esblem for Poultry Keeper IS to Get
Greatest Number of Eggs Possible
-Unproductive Hens Should
Be Sent to Market.

Now that the Matching season is
rtty well over, the problem for the
ETtry keeper, particularly for the
Eck-yard poultry keeper, is to get the
latest number of eggs possible from
number of hens kept during the
INNER. Hens that are not good
gers should be marketed. Unless the
b shave already been carried through
summer, which is perhaps not the
st practice for the backyard poultry
Rpers, there is necessarily some diff
lily in determining which are the
I'd summer layers. The fact that a
has been a good spring layer does
prove that she will be a good
INNER layer. OF course, no hen
Ould be sold while she continues to
h but a hen that has become broody
", after a brief period, begin laying
J ain and continue through the sum-
u. The condition of the comb will
Acate some time in advance whether
hen will begin laying again. If
shows no indication of preparing
lay, 1t would be wise to sell or eat
D The time of moulting is perhaps
safest indication. Hens that mOult
ry are not good summer layers, and
Is good practice to sell all hens that
gin mOulting in. June or early July.
Summer House Problem.
The problem of summer housing Is
much less a serious one than that
winter housing. The principal re-
lrements are fresh air, access to both
ode and sunlight, dryness and room.
e matter of air properly comes first,
free circulation of air practically
Nres dryness. Air and sunlight are
lures best disinfectants and germi-
les. But hens are very susceptible
an excess of heat and 1t is equally
tessary that they have plenty of
ade.
The problem of q summer ration for
backyard poultry keeper Is much
der Of solution than that of a win
ration. In most cases the neces-
y green feed can be supplied with
buying anything. Beet, carrot and
nip tops, waste leaves from cabbage
lettuce, onion tops, potato parings,
lermelon and cantaloupe rinds, to-
Aer with the clippings of grass from
lawn, will supply in most cases
the green feed required by the
3yard flock.
Dry Feed. Requirement.
Bread and cake crumbs, particularly
you can induce your nelghbor who
Fps no chickens to save hers for you,
go a long way toward supplying
dry-feed requirement. Meat scraps
q the kitchen may be sufficient to
vt the requirements for animal food,
ucularly If the hens have even n
le range in which they can scratch
bugs and worms. Such scraps are
run through a meat grinder and
led with three parts cornmeal and
part wheat bran. This should be
at noon or later. If any grain is
essary, 1t should be fed in the
ming and should be scattered In
tr sufficient to make the hens work
u Not more than a pint to ten
! should be fed in any case. Corn,
Aer whole or cracked, and oats will
lhe most suitable grain feeds. If
Is show a tendency to get too fat,
Grain ration should be reduced, as
tSslyely fat hens are good
Eers' Some beef scrap should be fed
shough meat scraps from tables can
De procured to meet the require
Jus of the hens.
uehs should have constant access
snt or stones small enough to be
s'owed and to crushed oyster or
n shells.
matter of first importance is that
water supply be always plentiful