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asenient in the wav of feeding, housing or cleanliness. 

 Some of theni, however, are contagious and cannot he 

 wholly prevented even when the feeding and sanitarv 

 conditions are of the best, but experience teaches that 

 where eonditions are good for birds they are bad for 

 disease gei-ms and vice versa, so that when contagious 

 diseases prevail, their ravages are much greater among 

 fowls that are poorly kept than among those that are 

 cared for properly. 



Contagious diseases and i)arasites are usually intro 

 duced by new .fowls brou.glit into the tiock. and it is 

 worth while, especially where pure bred fowls are 

 grown, to place all new acquisitions in quarantine away 

 from the flock for a few days, and until it has been 

 shown that they present no evidence of disease. Gre-at 

 care should be used, also, in purchasing only from 

 sound stock kept under favorable conditions. 



;ymptoms of disease. 



Birds show diseasie in a variety of ways, but in most 

 cases if the affection is at all severe, they become list- 

 less, sluggish, torpid, inclined to keep away from their 

 fellows, they are apt to stand with the head drawn 

 down, the wings and tail pendant and feathers ruffled. 

 In many diseases, diarrhoea is the first symptom, and in 

 all cases of diarrhoea, attention should be paid to the 

 droppings for the ])urpose of noting their color and 

 whether thev contain worms or an admixture of mucus 

 or blood. Sometimes loss of ajipetife is the first s>-nip 



