Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY NOTES

Overcrowding ducklings will induce feather-pulling. Kerosene is sure death to lice, if applied as a spray. Hens suffer from overeating as much as from starving. It is provoking to have hens steal their nests this time of the year. The feeding of onions to laying hens has produced an onion flavor in eggs. A hen egg-bound will be seen to visit the nest repeatedly without result. Fodder corn makes fine green food for poultry of all ages. Try it fed green. Many will realize this fall and winter that the early-hatched chick is the winter layer. It is not advisable to allow ducklings bathing water before the weather is warm and pleasant. Market at once all males not kept for breeders, and all pullets that have not kept pace with the rest of th© flock.