The Light Brahma Type 



How Many Acres 



The capital available and the ambition or purpose of the grower will determine 

 this. We have seen 250 hens kept on half an acre; 2,000 have been kept successfully 

 on four acres. It is all a question of management. But extra care is required to 

 keep say 500 hens on an acre, or 2,000 on four acres, and this must be reckoned 

 with. Extra labor or additional help may be required and the area limited upon 

 which feed may be grown. To keep 500 hens on five acres, raise' the green feed neces- 

 sary and gradually increase the flock as ability to manage is developed, would 

 seem to be wise. 



The chief danger in crowding is from contaminated soil. The preventative 

 is the spade and the plow, the shifting of flocks or pens to new locations and the 

 exposure of tainted grounds to the sun and air. Healthy fowls cannot be grown 

 on sick soil. 



Prevention of Disease 



It is one thing to cure disease; it is a better thing to prevent it, and this is as 

 true in the poultry yard as in the household. The one word under this head that 

 needs to be burned in is cleanliness. It cannot be made too emphatic. More 

 failures come from filth in this business than from any other single cause. Every 

 poultry man and every would-be grower of poultry should read the paper by Dr. 

 George B. Morse in the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture for 1911. 

 Dr. Morse writes as a bacteriologist and from this view-point he says that cleanli- 

 ness is the corner-stone of health and the keystone in the art of healing, and he 

 urges clean yards and houses, clean perches, clean soil, feeding troughs, food, 

 drink, air, eggs, incubators, brooders everything. The only modification of his 

 statement that we would urge is his advice to "clean out" the flock periodically 

 by the use of epsom salts. This should be omitted. Physic should be tabooed 



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