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hatchery business. But we will admit that there is a 

 distinct bacterial disease of the kind. Let us take refuge 

 in the suggestion that what is commonly called white 

 diarrhoea in chicks is not that particular disease. From 

 that standpoint it can safely be discussed. 



The writer believes that bowel trouble in young chicks, 

 evidenced by "pasting up," is due primarily to a chilling 

 of the chick while very young and when it is most sus- 

 ceptible to such a shock. And in the light of such a belief 

 it will more readily be understood why he so strongly 

 urges extreme care in handling the chicks. If the reader 

 is sufficiently interested he may turn back the pages and 

 learn how the writer would avoid the trouble, which to 

 his notion is the only hope. 



A flock of chicks infected with white diarrhoea is well- 

 nigh a hopeless proposition. The best we can do, all we 

 can hope for, is to save the strongest. We would give 

 them the salts and tonic treatment, the salts once a week, 

 the tonic every other day. Most authorities dwell 

 strongly on the merits of sour milk or buttermilk, kept 

 before them all the time. This must not be given in tin 

 or galvanized iron vessels. The best plan is to scald 

 several of the mash troughs, to make them water tight, 

 and feed it in the troughs. 



More important is the matter of avoiding further ex- 

 posure. If the theory herein advanced, that the trouble 

 is due to chilling, resulting in a cold settling in the intes- 

 tines ; if this theory is correct, we must first of all make 

 certain that the chicks are no longer exposed to chilling. 

 Excepting late in the season they had perhaps best be 

 kept in the house for a week or two, where the air is kept 



