Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1917 — POULTRY POINTERS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY POINTERS

> Geese wash their food down ’ with Jots of water. Give them > plenty, and have It always good ’ and fresh. ’ Folks use onions to ward off > colds. Just exactly as good fbr > hens. Chop them fine and mix > Take a bit of time and wipe J off the windows of the houses. • Hens like a nice light home as ’ well as you do. » Some of the commercial egg > producers are fine, but with the » best of them must go good care ’ and kindly treatment. > Remember that the turkey Is ’ a great meat eater, and keep > that part ofthefoo<lsuf>plyup. > Fancy fixings add nothing to ‘ efficiency. * Good, substantial > things are all the hens demand I for the furnishings of their • houses. • Have you ever thought that I hens prefer dark nests in which [ to do their laying? It is so. [ Hot food should never be ! „ given the fowls, though warm [ food is appetizing and some- • tim es helpful _ during cold [ weather. [ We do not advise the use of • pepper and other spices in poul- [ try foods, for they are likely to • injure the digestive organs of- , tile fowls. '“ t > During cold weather, fowls [ can eat more corn with advan- > tage than they can during warm- [ er weather, because corn fur- > nishes considerable of the heatJ making elements of food..