Shepherdstown Register

SALT FOR POULTRY.—Hens often have a habit of biting and pulling their feathers and greedily eating them until their bodies are bare. This practice, it is believed, is occasioned by a want of salt, as when salted food is given them they make no attempt to continue the habit. Salt pork, chopped fine and fed twice a week, has been adopted with success, while others put a teaspoonful of salt with two quarts of meal or shorts moistened, well mixed, and fed twice a week. Fowls, like human beings, to be healthy, must have certain allowance of salt.