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few days. In summer, say July, stop feeding- corn and keep 

 them thin. Give them oats and wheat and always keep lime 

 in the water. Give them all the grit they want and let 

 them roost out doors. A lot of fowls in a small house in 

 summer makes it very hot for them at night. 



If you have some sick with cholera, give them a mash 

 with strong red pepper in it twice a day for a few days, and 

 put iron and alum in the water. 



Fowls should not be fed much in the summer, lots of 

 range and green food and water, fresh and clean kept in a 

 cool place will prevent cholera every time. The wild birds 

 do not have cholera because they do not get too much corn, 

 nor are they fed too high. They have to look for their food 

 and thus are never overfed. A hen will never starve in sum- 

 mer on a farm; she finds all kinds of feed and fifty hens* on 

 a farm about a house need no food given to them at all, but 

 100 or 1,000 hens need some, because there is not enough for 

 them all. But if they are out on the colony plan, a house 

 every 100 yards all over the farm they will be spread all over 

 the farm and will not run over the same ground and thereby 

 each getting their share. 



Chicken Pox. 



This is caused by overcrowding in one house, the bad 

 air and foul heat in a close house. Don't let a lot of 

 young chickens go in one house. Divide them off and have 

 a coop with roosts in a house say 4x4 feet, 4 feet high, and 

 keep thirty or forty in a house like this, with a front cov- 

 ered with poultry wire. Close it up every night to keep out 

 night prowlers, such as skunks, minks, cats, dogs, etc. 



Scabby Legs in Poultry. 



Cause: Dirty, filthy houses and roosting places. Lice 

 get under the scales and play havoc with the legs. Lard and 

 sulphur mixed and rubbed on thickly, will be of great help 



