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agement in the way of feeding, liousing or cleanliness. 

 Some of them, bowever, are contagious and cannot be 

 wholly prevented even when the feeding and sanitary 

 conditions are of tlie best, but experience teaches that 

 where co-nditions are good for birds tliey are bad for 

 disease germs and vice versa, so that when contagious 

 diseases prevail, tlieir ravages are much greater among 

 fowls that are poorly kept than among those that are 

 cared for properly. 



Contagious diseases and })a,rasites are usually intro- 

 duced by new fowls brought into the Hock, and it is 

 worth while, especially where pure bred fowls are 

 grown, to place all neAv acquisitions in quarantine away 

 fi'om the flock for a few days, and until it has been 

 shown that they present no evidence of disease. Great 

 care should be used, also, in purchasing only from 

 sound stock kept under favoiable conditions. 



SYMPTO.MS OF DISEASE. 



Birds shc'W disease in a variety of ways, but in most 

 cases if the affection is at all severe, they become list- 

 less, sluggisb, torpid, inclined to keep away from tlieir 

 fellows, they are apt to stand with the head drawn 

 down, the wings and tail pendant and feathers ruffled. 

 Tn many diseases, diarrhoea is the first symptom, and in 

 all cases of diarihoea, attention should be paid to the 

 droppings for the ])urposp o>f noting their color and 

 whether they contain A\'orms or an admixture of mucus 

 or blood. Sometimes loss of apju'tite is the first sym])- 



