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AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION 



Management. Good care is of the utmost importance, and 

 good care includes not only careful methods of supplying 

 feed but careful methods of adjusting ventilation, cleaning 

 and disinfecting the house, etc. Closing the house up too 

 tightly in moderate weather and allowing it to remain too 

 open in severe weather is a prolific source of trouble; colds 

 develop and colds weaken the bird's power of resistance to 

 other diseases. Drafts allowed to blow on the fowls day or 

 night, especially at night when they are inactive on the roosts, 

 will be likely to cause colds in the flock. When kept upon 

 filthy or damp floors or litter, fowls are uncomfortable and 

 soon get into such condition that they are easily affected by 

 any kind of disease germs. 



Unclean nests not only injure the eggs laid there but 

 menace the health of the hens. Filthy dropping boards fur- 

 nish a place for the breeding of germs of disease and vermin. 

 All these fittings should be kept clean and should be disin- 

 fected occasionally. Vermin must not be allowed to get a 

 foothold. It not only makes the fowls uncomfortable, but 

 actually tortures them in some cases and by so doing reduces 

 their strength and vitality. 



New Blood. When .adding new blood to the stock, extreme 

 care should be taken to obtain the most vigorous and healthy 

 birds, for anything else not only fails to assist in maintaining 

 the health of the flock, but it reduces the necessary vitality. 

 (H. A. N.) 



BAEEED PLYMOUTH EOCK BABY CHICKS 

 (Courtesy Minnesota Agricultural College) 



