Identifier: americanfancierb193unse (find matches)
Title: The American fancier and breeder
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Poultry United States Periodicals
Publisher: De Kalb, Ill. : American Fancier and Breeder Pub. Co
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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another will get disastrous re-sults with the same, but my experience hasbeen that Spratts Patent food is the thing 10start and condition birds on; still there aremany other prepared foods on the matketthat give good results. Powdered charcoalshould be kept before the chicks all the timeas it is one of the best remedies for indiges-tion and bowl trouble. Hatching with hens one should be on thelookout for lice and not let them get on thelittle chicks, as the majority of dead ones aiedue to lice. Anyone hatching for the winter showsMay, June and July are the best months forthe birds will just get in fine feathers by thattime, still my 3rd Buff Wyandotte pullet atMadison Square Garden was hatched the firstof February and moulted just in lime to bein the pink of condition for that show. Manyare of that opinion that a buff colored Jowlhatched in May or later has a much beuerand smoother shade of color than thosehatched in the winter.—Poultry Standard. THE AMERICAN FANCIER. AND BREEDER 5
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G THE AMERICAN FANCIER. AND BREEDER. The breed that laysIs, the breed that pays

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