SETTING HENS.
Always use china eggs for nest eggs, 1 and never put eggs under a hen until she has set one night on a china egg, and is found upon her nest the second night ; then at evening put the eggs under her,11 to a large hen and nine to a small one.' Let the nest boxes be of ample size, 15 to 18 inches square, and first put a layer, of dry earth at the bottom, then make . the nests of fine hay or straw, and sprinkle a little flour of sulphur among it to drive away lice. Keep your hen-house, .well whitewashed, perches aud all, .and remove! the manure often. Put it into a barrel,! and when filled, or partly filled, take it into your garden, and mix it with about four times its bulk of soil. - • '
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Otago Witness, Issue 1340, 4 August 1877, Page 18
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140SETTING HENS. Otago Witness, Issue 1340, 4 August 1877, Page 18
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