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painting a box on the inside, and placing them in the 

 box, with a burlap bag thrown over all. But close at- 

 tention is necessary, to see when they have had enough. 

 A prominent turkey raiser treats the mother turkeys 

 after this manner when taking them from the nest, be- 

 fore she allows them to be cooped with their broods. 



The Best-Medicine Chest : Nature's Own Disease Preventives and Cheap Dis- 

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Twenty minutes of this insures that the lice on the 

 mother shall not, later, pass to the younger, choicer 

 hosts, the tender poults. 



A large handler of poultry supplies in this country 

 puts himself on public record as believing white diarrhoea 

 to be " an incubator disease." By this, he means that 

 it is due almost wholly to incorrect conditions surround- 



