shells or otherwise, and granulated or broken 

 charcoal all the time. 



Give your birds clean and comfortable quarters. 



Just as soon as a hen ceases to be profitable 

 market it. When you see a fowl that does not 

 look like a business fowl one that stays late on 

 the roost, stands around by itself, is inactive, over- 

 fat, broken down, walks unsteadily, is pale, or 

 shows signs of moulting, dress and market it 

 promptly, except where you wish to keep moult- 

 ing hens over for the next season, and they are 

 not the most profitable kind to keep. 



Remember that this rule does not apply to dis- 

 eased fowls. The first part of the "secret" dis- 

 poses of them. 



When these rules are strictly followed there will 

 be no danger of diseased fowls. You may say 

 that you do not wish to sell or reduce your stock. 

 Perhaps not, but the birds we have described, the 

 overfat, inactive and moulting fowls are fit subjects 

 for disease, which in every form is more easily 

 avoided than cured, and your risk of loss is far 

 greater with a few such fowls among your flocks 

 than from a reduction in numbers by marketing 

 the same. 



A YILLAINOUS PRACTICE. 



The preceding rules, if strictly carried out, pre- 

 vent and remove all temptation toward the vil- 

 lainous practice of marketing diseased fowls. It is 

 almost incredible, yet a fact, that many extensive 



