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making- branch of the Poultry business. They require no 

 feed and very little housing. In fact I never house turkeys 

 in winter, and never have roup among them. For the geese 

 you need only a shed with straw and hay, they eat hay like 

 a cow and old rotten stumps. Once a day I feed China geese 

 corn and a little ground feed, grit and water. Turkeys in 

 winter I feed a little oats and corn. I never have fat fowl& 

 and my stock always lays lots of fertile eggs. Fat fowls 

 don't lay fertile eggs, but hens must be in good flesh. Ducks 

 and turkeys also, but not too fat. Have you not seen poor 

 children running barefoot in late fall and early spring and 

 also poorly dressed? These children seldom get sick or 

 have a cold, they are used to it and brought up that way. 

 They live on common food and not in a steam-heated house, 

 kept up to 7*5 or 80 degrees. They sleep in a cold bed room 

 and they don't eat cake, pie and pastry of all kinds, but 

 their meals are potatoes, old dry bread, not hot buscuits or 

 fresh bread before it is barely cool, meats, gravies, etc. All 

 this is not good for children, and the worst thing is tea and 

 coffee for children. It is not good for grown people. I 

 have not had a sick child in my house and never had a doc- 

 tor in the house. If a child has a little fever I don't give 

 them anything to eat until the fever is gone. You can kill 

 a fever by starving the system a few days in human beings- 

 or poultry. If it is a cold, I feed the cold, and give the chil- 

 dren hot diinks of tea. American children are raised on the 

 hot-house plan in a temperature of 80 degrees and fed on 

 high stimulating foods, pastry, and the like. The parents 

 won't let them out to play in the fresh air. These children 

 are often sick and always have their family doctor, year in 

 and year out. On the contrary if they were let out doors ta 

 play every day in the year, sleep in a cold room, their bed 

 room aired every day and they were given plain food, they 

 would not need a doctor and would be happy and healthy. 

 This applies to poultry as well as to human beings and stock 

 of all kinds. If you are used to a temperature of 75 to 80 

 degress in your living rooms and bed rooms, you are more 

 liable to catch cold than if you were used to a room of 60 



