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divided into separate apartments of about twenty feet in 

 length by wire netting. If you have an old building that 

 you wish to convert into a poultry house, you had better 

 fumigate it well by burning saltpetre and sulphur, and 

 then ceil up the inside tightly with matched boards, giv- 

 ing a smooth surface for your paint or whitewash. 



The one great enemy to your chickens, young or old, is 

 vermin. Of these there are two kinds. It is as natural 

 for poultry to generate or breed vermin as it is for .them 

 to eat, and many a fine brood of fowls is rendered entirely 

 useless by these pests of the hen-house. What are the 

 remedies or disinfectants? Well, we prepare our nests 

 for setters or layers as follows : We put a little salt hay 

 into the box after saturating it well with kerosene oil, 

 then we fill the boxes as full as is necessary with pine saw- 

 dust or shavings. These are excellent disinfectants and 

 absorbents as well. Then we occasionally sprinkle the 

 boxes with dry sulphur or carbolic acid. We use a great 

 deal of carbolic acid about our nests and roosts. We give 

 our fowls the means to take a dust bath in coal ashes or 

 road dust, which is equally as good, and then, as often as 

 twice a year, we fumigate our houses by burning sulphur 

 and saltpetre in them with the doors and windows closed 

 tightly. No vermin can live one minute in that sulphur- 

 ous odor. 



The next question that will arise in the minds of those 

 contemplating this business prospectively is, will it pay? 

 after doing all this, will it pay? We think it will ; taking 

 one year with another, we think it will pay you better 

 than any other industry connected with farming, with the 

 same amount of capital invested. If any man tells you he 

 can make a profit of four or five dollars per year on every 

 hen, and forty dollars apiece on every duck, you may 

 make up your mind that he has a secret that the ordinary 



