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be used, preferably both, wherever a school equipment will 

 permit it. One should not attempt to use an incubator in 

 connection with any school unless there is a basement in 

 which it may be kept safely and under fairly good conditions. 



Descriptions and illustrations of ideal hen houses for keep- 

 ing young chickens, the brood coop, etc., will be furnished 

 by the state experiment stations. The children in the coun- 

 try school can easily make the coops and use them in egg- 

 laying contests. In these contests each pupil sets a hen in 

 one of these coops. A prize is given to the pupil who raises 

 the largest number of chickens; another to the pupil who 

 raises the greatest number of pounds of chicken; another to 

 the owner of the chickens that score the highest, etc. 



Some sanitary measures in the prevention of diseases 

 among poultry. Common poultry ailments can be divided 

 into three classes: 



(a) Those that affect the respiratory organs. 



(b) Those that affect the digestive organs. 



(c) The parasites. 



The kind of poultry house described on a preceding page 

 is the best preventative for the first class of diseases. The 

 most serious disease among poultry is roup, which is a catar- 

 rhal cold resulting from secretions of the head, from which 

 the chicken can not free itself and which become putrid and 

 poison the system. A simple remedy is: a little ointment 

 made of camphor, eucalyptus oil, menthol, and oil of cloves, 

 applied with a sewing machine oil can through the nostrils 

 into the cleft roof of the mouth. It is an almost absolute 

 cure. 



