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plagues, chicken cholera and roup ; but till that happy 

 era arrives the inflexible rule for treatment of diseased 

 birds should be : Keep a sharp hatchet, and use when 

 the disease first appears. The foundation principle 

 must be to secure and maintain health and vigor. In 

 introducing new blood, it had best be done by procuring 

 eggs for hatching. But in the rare cases when it may 

 be advisable to add live birds to the breeding stock, they 



FIG. 49. HOSPITAL FOR EGG FARM. 



should first be quarantined at a distance from the main 

 premises and frequently and carefully inspected, before 

 being added to the flocks. 



Of late, great advances have been made in the matter 

 of destroying the parasitic vermin on fowls, and these 

 pests will never again prove the terror to poultry men 

 that they once were. The mites that infest the nests 

 and perches, we have long known how to prevent. 

 During sixteen consecutive years of fowl keeping in 



