HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



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feet or otherwise to the quarantined 

 area. In some cases a pan of kerosene 

 oil is kept at the gate and rubbers are dis- 

 infected in this before entering the 

 ■chicken yard. ' 



The second step is to thoroughUi dis- 

 infect the brooder houses and equipment. 

 Clean out all loose dirt, sweep down walls 

 and then give the house a real soaking 

 with disinfectant. Corrosive sublimate, 

 2 oz. to 15 gallons of water or kero.sene 

 should be used on the floors and part way 

 up the walls. Then use a coal tar 

 'disinfectant on the rest of the house. 

 Naturally this should all be done before 

 the brooder house is moved on to new 

 •ground. The chickens should be removed 

 •directly to the disinfected house after 

 they are taken from the incubator. Do 

 not let them run on manure piles or in 

 ;swamp holes as these are sources of in- 

 fection. 



For those who are .so unfortunate as to 

 have permanent brooder houses which can- 

 not be moved, there is a way out, even 

 though not usually as satisfactory as the 

 new ground plan. The brooder hou.se 

 -hould be cleaned and disinfected as noted 

 .above. If the brooder floor is dirt, remove 

 all loose dirt and feathers. Then soak 

 the floor down with 2 oz. corrosive sub- 

 limate in 15 gallons of water using a gal- 

 lon of the disinfectant to every 10 square 

 feet of floor. A floor 10 feet by 10 feet 

 v.-culd require 10 gallons of solution. 

 Then the yards need to be disinfected in 

 the same way. Dissolve the corrosive 

 sublimate in hot water, then add to cold 

 water. Spading or harrowing the yai'ds 

 will help the disinfectant to soak in. 

 Copper Sulphate may be used for this 

 purpose. Lime will not kill worm eggs. 



Under both systems the laying houses 

 .should .be thoroughly disinfected before 

 the pullets are put in them in the fall. 

 Where trouble has been experienced this 

 year it would be well to confine the pullets 

 to the houses rather than run the risk of 

 infection by letting them out into the 

 old yards. 



One of the first men to adopt this pro- 

 gram stai'ted four years ago. Every year 

 he shifts his brooder houses to new land. 

 In his system the land is used but once 

 in four years to rear chickens. The year 

 after the chickens are on the land it is 

 plowed, limed and seeded down to grass 

 and clover, oats usually being used as a 

 nurse crop. Then the land is in hay two 

 years before the chickens are brought 

 back there again. At a poultry extension 

 school he stated that this system was the 

 ■only thing that had enabled him to stay 

 In the business. 



The object of this article is not simply 

 to fill space but to bring to the attention 

 of every one in the county keeping 

 poultry a system of poultry disease con- 

 trol which is simple, effective and has 

 been adopted by some of the best poultry- 

 men in the couiitv. 



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