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to most readers, unless the bad points were mentioned 

 at the same time. With this thought in mind, I 

 am trying to show the pitfalls that go with each 

 method of beginning with poultry raising. There is a 

 difficulty with brooder chicks which the average Beginner 

 will not be expecting, and which may send him stum- 



" You, too, must Fight These Lice." Lice-killing Machine. Introduce Birds 

 and Lice Powder, and Rotate 



bling beyond recovery of his balance. If not bought 

 from some one known to have good, free-range, healthy, 

 vigorous stock, these machine-hatched chicks are quite 

 liable to develop "white diarrhoea," the most dreaded 

 scourge of the incubator chick. This is said to be in- 

 cipient even in the egg before it is incubated, in some 

 cases. In case this should occur, you might lose every 

 one before they were three weeks old. 



