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            What arc the main points to observe  no one in charge of affairs at home and
          in matinfr  ? — J. R. H.              who wants to keep fowls if he feels that
            The  lecture' of  Prof. James E. Rice  he can do them justice,  — J, S. F.
          as 'piiblished  in  this  issue covers the  The nest should have  double  walls
          point'ift qtifcSt-ion very thoroughly.  filled with non-conducting material, and
                  <.\<i<r-                      for this there  is nothing  better  than
            llr.'.-     »  +  *  *
                                                sifted  coal  ashes.  The  front  of  the
            u6 '""yoti advise  keeping  individual
          daily records  of laying hens  ?•  R. H.  nest should be covered with strips  of
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                                                cloth of several thicknesses so that one
            We certainly  do.  Our plan  is  quite
                                                will  overlap the  other and  close the
          fully outlined in the Philo System book.
                                                opening after the hen leaves.
            We only keeyj four or five hens in our
                                                  Where the climate is very cold or on
          best breeding pens and by close observa-
                                                very cold days a small soapstone heated
          tion can d stinguish the eggs from each
                                                and placed in one side of the nest in the
          individual  hen.  While we  give  this
                                                morning would keep the eggs safely for
          work our personal attention, we thought
                                                from twelve to twenty hours.
          best to teach our poultryman this work,
          and he  is now- able to tell the number
                                                  How would you    produce a   barred
          of the hen as soon as picking up the
                                                fowl from  the  black and white of the
          6gg-  Brown eggs  are' more easily  dis-
                                                the same   breed ?  1  hear  that  it has
          tinguished than white eggs.  The tex-
                                                been  done.  Awaiting your next issue
          ture of the shell and the shape of the
                                                with usual interest,  J. S. F.
          egg are the points to study when the
                                                   Barred fowls cannot be produced in a
          eggs are pure white.
                                                few generations from black and white
                         •  *  *  *
                                                fowls cros&ed, and we are not sure that
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                         Denver, June i6, '08.
                                                it would be possible, although  it might
            My   Dear  Mr. Philo:— Vou certainly
                                                possibly be accomplished in eight or ten
          have devised the best of plans to raise
                                                generations.
          poultry in limited quarters; but here  is
                                                   In most cases a white cock mated to
          a proposition that  I believe will puzzle
                                                black hens will produce ninety per cent,
          you.  Shall hope to see the solution in
                                                 white fowls and a black cock mated to
          your next issue of the Review.
                                                 white hens w-ill produce ninety per cent,
            How, can one who  is away  all day
                                                black fowls.
          manage   to  care              1 can
                           for poultry ?
                                                   With some strains and breeds such
          attend to them  in  the morning and
                                                crosses will produce some mottled birds
          arrange the water, question in  freezing  while others will produce blue birds such
          weather, but the, collection, of the eggs                                   ^ii
                                                 as  Andelusians.  A  cross  between  a
          bothers me.  Mr. Weeks has,  I  think,  Black Minorca cock and White Leghorn
          solved 'the trap-nested lien part of it,
                                                hen will often produce all blue chickens.
          b',-The thought just  occurs  , to
                                        , me,— -;_  ; Many iyearS' ago we crossed a Black'
                                                ;
          Why could not the egg be   laid  close  , Spanish  cock  with  a White Leghorn"  ill'
          enoHgh' to' the fountain that—utilizing                                     .<[
                                                 hen, which gave us  all black chickens.
          th-e: fireless cooker idea to keep it from                                   M  r
                                                 After these chickens moulted the first
          freezing-—would prevent  their  getting
                                               ii, season they were mottled and each sue
          chilled?
                                         J'm,-/  -. (feeding year showed more white until
            This  is, of course, very  crude',  but
                                               , the  fourth  year  when they  were  as
          nowadays you are bringing up so many
                                                 pretty I.White Spanish  as  one  would
          labor saving and unique devices that  it
                                                ..wish to .see.  If attempting to  get the
          leads xme to think what remains for a  (barred: birds- from- black and  w-hite  w-e
          JriaiT'-to dcrwho i^ away all day and has  -,  ,-iiif Sqnjtitiued on page 27
           ;-.«' ;_Vr •((-  -.-•  '7. --A- ':  ''  ;
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