NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10361, 5 September 1922, Page 4

NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

You can't beat a good mother—it t doesn't matter whether it is horses, fowls, or men. Don't forget it. When the eggs are not more than a week old they will usually hatch out together.

Direct sunlight should reach every part of the house during as much of the day as possible. Sunlight is the best germ destroyer known, and it also brightens up the birds. Tbe big poultry) keeper uses a chaff cufkr. r-ut the small man can get good ipsults with a pair of oldfashioned sheep shears, which may De ■ purchased at any ironmonger's shop. When the chickens are hatching It is usually better to leave the hen alone if she is ai all nervous. Should she be a motherly old bird who knows and empty shells two or three times during (he day. With too much use the soil in a poultry run will become stale and "sick." F°r Hiis reason it is wise to t P ,,HI the yard occasionally. -The ground should be turned over, and some qiiiHt. -trons growing green stuff planted. Hian which there is nothing better than rape.

The best breed ins combination, as proved by the gonial experience, is to have as.e and maturity on the side of the hens. That lr. to say—'he cockbird of from K> to 1* months old should be mated with two and three

vrar owl lionr. Some hens will sit lev Mghtly if left to tlriiwlvov For the first «wn or three days and the last 'lay. leave them alone. Then, if they do not come off. lift H--m or."- a day. when Uiey will "00-i l'-ani lo '- :l! :uul (irinkjy <V.p \vr:il!iiT is cold, cover the r-Kps w ,tb « I'll of • ts "' ,ltinß - whik ' ,h 0 h, ' n is off il 11 " 1 '- wh,Ml u "' day 1s warm 1c -,yp iltb'» alonn. The bird should evacuate fore returning lo .he ~ i.p.».> lier ol'f iinlil she due-, up r , 01 - -jo minute-, an;, how. If the SPEAK HIGIDiY OF IT. , wryotie speaks woll of Chamber- , ■ .■« Cough Remedy after using it, i tt« best friends are people who and n««d it for years. Thoy have l' aVO i that it can always be depended 101111 .Mul while they may occasionll.i!un;rv'other remedies that they see , , ■<{■., kI. "•' t,int aiv reeoninicnd"'V« V t'rt'rVn b>' friends, they are al- ' ,'° ~, rI; ;j!i i ( ) return lo <:'hamber- ' fni'i:.\Ji H' ne.'dy and acknow- "'''/, j, ;r> 1 " *» <! '"'• l ' 1!lld most I-Mile n'edi;•.""'■ t"°. v linvc " ovor u ' ed I '',.' J | . l , u ->l;s. c.Tlds. and croup. .Sold !"' '!, Vh«'triis<<» and Storekeepers. ,'■ „L. ~m l Ccraldine.