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POULTRY

JOURNAL
too much of the day loang. Also do
not feed at night because the mash
does not stay with the fowls all through
the night. Scratch grains in the morn
ing, moist mash at noon, whole or
cracked corn at night and dry mash
all the time is the best general cold
weather feeding.
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take of sacricing them at home or on

the market. A small classied adver
tisement in a good poultry magazine
will help him sell those birds and get
what they are really worth. Do not
sell good birds on the market. This
month and January are the months to
advertise such birds for sale. Get rid
of them before the pens must be
mated up.
Another mistake most beginners

make is to use inferior birds in their

breeding pens because they only have
a few extra good ones. As a matter
of fact they will be vastly better off.
will make much better progress if they
will be content to raise chicks only
from the few good ones. One does
not absolutely need ten hens for each
male. If he has only four good hens
he can shut the male up part of each
day. Do not raise scrubs. Breed from
your best only. Not how many but
how good should be the program.
Be sure to attend the nearest big
poultry show this season. Take in all
the nearby smaller winter shows too,
that you possibly can. Enter a few of
. your best birds in a good show and nd
out how good they really are when
compared with the best others can
produce. You will know more about
your favorite breed at the close of thr
season than you ever did before. Thcrt

are a whole lot of better birds 31

home," but it is the birds in the shon
room that count largely in advertising
value and in satisfaction to the breeder.
\Vinter colds are usually contracted

If You Keep Chickens

as a result of drafts. Starting this way.

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from individual to individual by con
tagion and infection. There may bi
in the ock a bird that has not the
constitutional vigor to resist the at
mospheric changes that occur in the
fall of the year, and so develops a

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cold.

Drinking from the same dish

with the rest. roosting on the same

roosts, this bird becomes a germ car
rier and a center for the spread of the
disease. Such birds should be segre
gated immediately as soon as discov
ercd and treated separately or killed

and buried. In this way your troubles

along the line of colds are reduced to
a minimum.
December is a bad month for fowls
to form all sorts of bad habits. Having
been shut up they develop cannibalis
tic tastes, and try to eat up one an~
other alive. Males are the worst suf
ferers. Impellcd by a sense of gal
lantry, or by just plain foolishness. a
male will stand still and let himself
be devoured of feathers by his mates.
They begin by picking the feathers
about the head and neck, then pick
the comb and wattles, and keep pick
ing away until the male is greatly
wcakcncd from the loss of blood. The
cure for this, as well as any other bad