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degrees or colder. When you make a change, make it by 

 degrees, don't do it all at once. 



Now take it in the dog business or kennel as it is called. 

 They read up on how to feed dogs. Then they feed them all 

 kinds of truck and finally the dogs get sick and die. If they 

 would stop to think, other dogs running around never get 

 sick and very seldom die while high blooded dogs die like 

 sheep. They feed on meat, every day in the year, dog 

 <iakes, and a dozen other things. They feed too rich food, 

 not enough exercise, and are too finely bred, while a com- 

 mon dog picks up any old thing. In fact, there could be raised 

 lots of fine blooded dogs and poultry that would be just as 

 healthy as any other animal or fowl, if only common sense 

 was used and if they would only stop to think and wonder 

 why the dogs and poultry of their neighbors, who don't read 

 up on pure blooded stock are not sick. The greatest trouble 

 nowadays is, they study too much on how to get best re- 

 sults, and at the same time they ruin the health of their 

 poultry by high feeding and improper food. Some common 

 people nowadays are beginning to think a little, for instance 

 coffee and tea is the worst poison a person can take if they 

 drink three or four cups a day all their life. Government 

 soldiers are not allowed to drink either coffee or tea. It 

 makes them nervous and causes headaches and indigestion, 

 heavy feeling after a meal, and the consequences are they 

 are not fit to handle a gun, nor march, nor exposure to all 

 kinds of rough life. During the English and Boer war 

 when the Boers were captured, they were put in prison and 

 shipped to an island 300 to 1,000 in one shipload. Some of 

 them died and most all were sick. This was because they 

 were crowded in poorly ventilated rooms. Their food was 

 different from what they were accustomed to, and while be- 

 fore they had always been accustomed to outdoor life, with 

 the free fresh air to breath. This is the reason, nothing 

 else. You have no doubt noticed the following, when you 

 had Poultry shipped to you in the fall or winter they had 

 caught a cold, roup was the result and they died. The 

 cause of this is, from my experience, the Poultry were used 



