A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



habit which springs from the natural desire 

 for animal food, being denied which cre- 

 ates an abnormal desire. A fight or some 

 accident causes a few feathers to be torn 

 from a bird's body and some one of the flock 

 discovers the animal secretion in the quills; 

 the habit is acquired to alleviate the crav- 

 ing and, like most evils, spreads quickly 

 throughout the pen, and it will be only a 

 short time before the entire flock will be de- 

 moralized. Remedies are very inefficient in 

 this case, so be careful to furnish a perpetual 

 preventive in the shape of meat scraps or 

 green bone. 



The following receipts are from cuttings 

 made years ago for my own guidance, so 

 unfortunately the original sources are lost in 

 the oblivion of time. 



CHOLERA 



In the majority of cases the so-called 

 wholesale destruction of flocks from cholera 



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