NATURAL LAWS. 15 



to an outdoor life and their houses were at a temperature of 

 40 degrees or even the freezing point. They were boxed up, 

 put in an express car, near a stove 80 to 90 degrees of heat, 

 then dumped off at some station where it was below freez- 

 ing, onto a platform for three or four hours. The sudden 

 change causes it. This also applies to taking Poultry to a 

 show. They are kept in a room or hall for a week in a tem- 

 perature of 70 degrees and then shipped home in a tempera- 

 ture of zero or lower. They are also fed three times a day 

 in the show room. This causes a distemper. They don't 

 get the outdoor air nor exercise, and in fact poor judgment 

 is used. They really ought to be fed only once per day, at 

 night only, and very little at that, and they should not be 

 shipped out of a warm room into cold zero weather. Take 

 the birds and prairie chickens, they are out in all kinds of 

 weather and get used to it. They don't have sudden 

 changes, and have to look for their food, it is not taken to 

 them. They live and breed and are the healthiest of all 

 fowls. I remember well when I was married eight years 

 ago, my father would not go to my wedding because he had 

 three Jersey cows coming in about that time. He said " I 

 must be on the watch and give them warm food, keep the 

 stable warm, blanket them, etc." But with all his good 

 care one cow died. I was married only about 100 miles from 

 home, but he could not spare the time for the trip. I told 

 him this. " In my time I have seen cows have calves in the 

 snow and in mid-winter at that, and healthier cows and 

 calves I never saw. They would kick up their heels and run 

 around like deer." Cows, horses and poultry of all kinds 

 can be made just as hardy if you start right from young on, 

 not to do it when they are matured, but when they first 

 come into this world. I have done it for eight years, you 

 can do the same if you only read this book to the letter in- 

 structions. Farmers who don't know anything about Poul- 

 try have the healthiest chickens. Why? Because they have 

 no time to bother with their hens, they let them roost in 

 trees or sheds, and very seldom have a sick chicken. Some- 

 times they have cholera among the hens. This is caused by 



