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final resort the egg may be broken, but this is desperate 

 treatment. If the particles of shell are not removed care- 

 fully, or if a piece of shell is thrust through the wall of 

 the egg-duct, infection is likely and the hen will be lost. 



Leg Weakness. We have made all manner of experi- 

 ments with pullets that go down on their haunches at the 

 time of maturity and have never been able to effect a cure. 



Hens with what we classify as rheumatism may be 

 brought back to a certain degree, but the cure is seldom 

 permanent. It is a saving of time to get rid of them. 



And the thin, wasted cases have never been experi- 

 mented with they are put away immediately. 



An Occasional Dose of Salts 



During the hot summer months we make a practice ot 

 giving the entire flock a dose of Salts about once each 

 month. The dose is at the rate of one pound to 250 birds. 

 It is given just once and is followed next day by soda at 

 the same rate. 



Conclusion as to Diseases 



Occasion is taken to reassure the beginner on the sub- 

 ject of disease among the birds. Colds and the minor 

 troubles discussed you are likely to have almost any time 

 and regardless of the care given the birds ; and so far as 

 pox and canker are concerned, we have had but two sieges 

 of it in eight years. It is not amiss to suggest that if no 

 troubles were to be contended with there would be little 

 if any profit in the work. The writer has been through 

 all forms of discouragement but he has made a good thing 

 out of it, and there is no reason why you should not do 

 as well. 



