54 NATURE AND ITS 



Diseases and How to Prevent. 



Nature Followed and No Drugs Used. 



Causes of failure in the poultry business are diseases, 

 and chicks dying- after they are hatched. Ninety-nine out 

 of every hundred read up on poultry, and feed them all 

 kinds of powders and medicine, and kill them by filling- them 

 with all kinds of stuff. Nature provides bugs and seeds 

 of all kinds but no medicines or powders. Wild birds never 

 have diseases, and they raise all their young- right out in the 

 open air in all kinds of weather. But just as soon as you. 

 cage up a wild bird, it don't make much difference what it 

 is, sooner or later it will get sick and die, just as sure as 

 the sun shines. Now it ought not to die, because it is 

 where it is dry and warm, fed regularly, and has the best of 

 everything. But the best of care will not make the bird 

 live. Why? Because the bird is a prisoner, has no liberty,, 

 is used to free range, and the regular food given is too high 

 for it, No exercise, nor a fresh, pure air, as if out and free, 

 and other things to which it is accustomed. 



Expert book writers and expert poultry men say that the 

 hen that is on free range gets meat all day long, such as bugs 

 grasshoppers, worms, etc., and we must feed our poultry 

 meat from the butcher shop to poultry that are yarded up, 

 because they cannot get worms, etc. Now they feed meat, 

 all that they can eat, and a dozen other things, to make the 

 hens lay. If this is done in the winter time they will get 

 roup and distemper, just as sure as you feed meat and fresh 

 bone in any quantity. In summer if fed on meat they will 

 get liver troubles and go light, and other diseases of the 

 same nature. 



Now, why is it they get sick, if fed on meat? Just this, 

 it is too rich for them. You must stop to think that worms, 

 bugs, etc., are about ninety per cent water and it is not a 

 rich food. It makes chicks grow and hens lay, but the food 

 is not rich in nutriment and protein. 



