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ably employed as poultry ranges. Fowls are freer from 

 disease on a sandy soil and will fertilize it to a consider- 

 able extent. 



If possible, don't have any green, slimy pools of 

 water about. They are bad for man and hen. 



Give fowls and animals all the light possible. Light 

 and pure air are health givers. Darkness and disease 

 are allies. 



Plough or spade the poultry yard at times ; it keeps 

 the earth clean and tends to promote the health of the 

 fowls. 



" Chicken powders " and advertised compounds pro- 

 raise all sorts of wonder working. Little or nothing 

 is known of them. If " stimulating," remember that 

 stimulants act on animals as on men feel good for a 

 while and then not. Good food is all a fowl needs in 

 health and the indicated homoeopathic remedy in 

 disease. 



Whether charcoal, asafoetida, Cayenne pepper, etc., 

 are good to " promote health," is a very wide, open 

 question. Some believe in them we don't. 



