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Now if there is anything else that anyone wants to ask I 

 would be glad to answer. I do not, however, want to stand 

 up here and talk all day. 



Question. How about sulphur? 



Dr. Wood. That is simply another name for the creolin 

 preparation. You can buy that article just as cheap under 

 another name, and sometimes cheaper. The Buffalo Sanitary 

 Fluid, which is a creolin solution, can be bought for seventy- 

 five cents, and almost any of these other preparations do not 

 change it a particle. They are all coal tar preparations. 



Question. How many chickens do you put in your mother 

 brooder ? 



Dr. Wood. Fifty and no more. 



Question. What have you to say of the extensive use of 

 lime? 



Dr. Wood. I use lime for a top dressing for land. I have 

 used Nova Scotia land plaster on my dropping boards when I 

 have had opportunity, but the minute you start in to use a 

 finely powdered slaked lime, dust gets into the chickens' nos- 

 trils, and into the catarrhal tracts, and then you have trouble. 

 I went down here and saw Frank VanAlstyne. He was using 

 lime on the floors of his breeding coops, also on his dropping 

 boards, and using it in his brooders, and his chickens all had 

 various kinds of catarrhal colds. There was one little flock 

 that had gapes, the rest of them had catarrh from the effects 

 of the lime. Their throats were horribly inflamed, from the 

 constant breathing in of the dust. 



Mr. Graham. You say you use wheat? 



Dr. Wood. I prefer red wheat. 



Mr. Graham. Why? 



Dr. Wood. Because I can usually buy it cheaper. It is 

 harder and stands up better. I think you can get more for your 

 money than you do with the white wheat. I take any kind of 

 wheat I can get. 



