HINTS AND ITEMS.
“In mating your fowls for next season’s breeding, do not coop too many liens with one cock, or you will have sterile eggs.” Well, most peoplo know that much about poultry breeding, but everybody does not know that “ too few ” hens with one cock is just as bad, if not worse. The rooster business is frequently overdone. There is a great deal of interest manifested in artificial incubation, and, judging from the inquh-ies for incubators, I should say that fully one-half of the adult population of the United States intend to go into the poultry business during the coming season. Don’t be afraid of feeding your laying hens during cold weather, more hens suflbr from under-feeding. It takes a good deal of food to keep up animal heat, and provide the material for eggs. There is nothing that fowls will devour more greedily than raw hone when it is broken into bits. Mills that will break up bones can be had for a few dollars. It is a good idea to prepare chicken coops and nest boxes for sitting hens now. When gravel cannot be obtained for fowls, old earthenware, broken into bits of suitable size will answer every purpose.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 112, 16 April 1880, Page 4
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