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CHAPTER IX. 



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MARKETING POULTRY PRODUCTS. , 173-195 



Where to sell 173 



Marketing eggs 174 



Requisites for good market eggs 175 



Loss in bad eggs 175 



Hindrances to market poultry '. 177 



Marketing poultry 178 



Fattening foods 179 



Breeding to increase egg production and to improve quality of eggs . 180 



Capons and caponizing 186 



Things worth considering 190 



CHAPTER X. 



TURKEYS, DUCKS AND GEESE 196-206 



How to hatch, feed and rear turkeys 196 



Five-acre duck farm 200 



How to hatch, feed and rear ducks and geese 201 



Raising ducks and geese 205 



CHAPTER XI. 



DISEASES, THEIR PREVENTION AND CURE 207-231 



The causes of disease 207 



The essentials of prevention 210 



A great preventative 210 



Train your eye to detect disease 210 



Prevention rather than cure 211 



Breeding for health . 212 



How to make a post-mortem examination 213 



Precautions 214 



Crop bound 215 



Going light 215 



Simple diarrhoea 216 



Enteritis dysentery 216 



Tuberculosis 216 



White diarrhoea 218 



Rheumatism 221 



Roup . 221 



Croup and bronchitis 223 



Canker 223 



Chicken pox 224 



Liver diseases 224 



Cholera 224 



Intestinal worms 225 



Limber neck or wry neck . 225 



Vent gleet 226 



Scaly leg 226 



Inflammation of the oviduct 227 



Frozen-comb and wattles 228 



Bumble foot 228 



Gapes 228 



Leg weakness , 230 



Cuts and wounds , , .......,.,,,.,,,........-. . . 230 



