If yon keep chickens too long on a. boarded floor, look out for cramp and twisted feet. You will notice it all right. The good-laying hen almost always has three-cornered bayonet-shaped legs. Don't know why. but know that it is so. If you have a supply of water you should put in a lot of srecn stull'. Plant maize, thousand-headed kale, and anything else thatvill grow in hot weather. Green food is of especial boccflt to tho birds in tho summer month. It's a good idea to net a hammer and crack up some bones once a week, and 'feed to the fowls. The bones contain limo end other elements that tnaintaiU3 health.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 15, 12 October 1918, Page 12
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113Untitled Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 15, 12 October 1918, Page 12
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