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plenty large enough and have screens for both 

 doors and windows for use in summer. Keep 

 the grain in a feed room and make incessant 

 war to the death on rats and mice. Likewise 

 keep chickens away from the horse stable. 

 Chicken lice appear to thrive and multiply 

 amazingly on horses and the annoyance they 

 cause and the flesh they destroy are in propor- 

 tion. Show me a farm where the fowls and the 

 horses young and old hob-nob continually and 

 I will show you a lousy lot of stock. This is 

 perhaps a homely and inconsequential point in 

 the estimation of some folks, but it pays well 

 to keep stock of all kinds free from parasites. 

 In a previous chapter the necessity of feed- 

 ing clean grain and roughage to horses has been 

 emphasized. To this end an oats cleaner should 

 be installed and every pound of the grain fed 

 should pass through that most useful contriv- 

 ance. Oats may look to even the practiced ob- 

 server to be nice and clean and free from the 

 contamination of seeds that are worthless for 

 feed, and trash of various sorts, but the same 

 practiced observer will often be astounded, 

 when a bushel of the grain has been run through 

 the cleaner, to see the great heap of hurtful mat- 

 ter that has been eliminated. The awns of the 

 oats, bits of straw, fragments of binding twine, 

 leaves of weeds and a multiplicity of weed seeds 

 will show up in far greater volume than was 

 anticipated. These by-products of the oat har- 



