Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1918 — POULTRY POINTERS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY POINTERS

Keep the hens confined to your own land. Don’t keep a male bird. Hens lay Just as well without a male. Don’t overstock your land. Purchase well-matured pullets rather than hens. Don’t expect great success in hatching and raising chicks unless you have had some experience and have a grass plot separate from the yard for the hens. Build a cheap house or shelter. Make the house dry and free from draughts, but allow for ventilation. Fowls stand cold better than dampness. . . Keep house and yard clean. Provide roosts and dropping boards. Provide a nest for each four or five hens. Grow some green crop in the yard. Spade up the yard frequently. Feed table scraps and kitchen whste. Also feed grain once a day. Feed a dry mash. Keep hens free from lice and the house free from mites. Kill and eat the hens in the fall as they begin to molt and cease to lay. Preserve the surplus eggs produced during the spring and summer for use during the fall and winter when eggs are scarce and high in price.