Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1919 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE]

POULTRY NOTES

Fresh air is one of the essentials in poultry houses. * • • Early hatching means well-matured pullets which begin to lay in the fall. Gradually poultry breeding is becoming more like live stock breeding. « • • Don’t use any except strong, vigorous males to head the breeding pens tlds season. • • • The egg with a dirty shell is one of the most objectionable factors of ths egg industry. ♦ ♦ * It is a serious mistake to cross and mix the breeds. There is no place for the mongrel fowL » The comb of a good layer is pliable and warm, usually well colored and of a soft, velvety texture. ■ ■ . • * .w, . It pays to padlock the poultry house every night and know how many birds are supposed to roost there. \V . v Pack the eggs according to size, placing the large eggs in one case and the small in another. To get fertile eggs for early hatching, the fowls must bahealthy. and green feed helps to keep them in condition. Do not wash dirty eggs and send them to market, for different forma of mold may result from packing th* eggs damp.