Men who deliberately do such things would 

 be more useful to the poultry fraternity with 

 heads off. 



Poultrymen, as a rule, are first-rate people, but 

 there are poultry jockeys as well as horse jockeys. 

 The horse trader who doses and doctors a nag to 

 conceal a dozen imperfections from the innocent 

 purchaser, is a saint in comparison with the man 

 who knowingly sells a diseased fowl for food. 



Of what interest is this to the honorable btgin- 

 ner? It shows him an existing, hidden danger 

 and the means by which to avoid it. If he is on 

 his guard against selling diseased fowls, he will 

 also be on his guard against buying them, and 

 that one point may decide his success or failure 

 in raising poultry. One diseased fowl may spread 

 ruin throughout the establishment. 



THE VAPORIZER AND ITS USE. 



One of the most useful implements on the poultry 

 farm is a vaporizer. If you have not got one, 

 you can easily make one. Take an ordinary hand 

 lamp which has a No. i burner, and make a tin 

 chimney for it, similar to an incubator or brooder 

 chimney, with mica piece in front to show flame. 

 Take a seamless tin box, about six inches in 

 diameter and any convenient depth, having a 

 cover to fit, and, with strips of tin and rivets, 



