A GUIDE FOR KEEPERS OF POULTRY 79 
ing them with a cloth dampened in 90 per cent alcohol 
and finishing the hatching in incubators, then brooding 
the young for a few weeks on a disinfected board floor, 
the mortality was reduced from 80 per cent to 15 to 20 
per cent. Even when the turkeys were kept on new land 
at a distance from all other poultry, the disease appeared. 
Since Dr. Curtice made his investigations the Biological 
Division of the Rhode Island station has been continuing 
the work, but nothing of importance has been discovered. 
Slowly the details of the disease are being brought to 
light, but so far no system of treatment has been dis- 
covered that promises to protect turkeys from contract- 
ing it or that will halt its progress. The best advice that 
can be given is for those whose flocks show the presence 
of the disease to cease to breed turkeys for a few years. 
BROOD COOPS.—The illustrations are of several 
stvles of brood coops suitable for housing chicks from 
the time they are hatched until they are ready to be put 
into permanent quarters in the fall. The brood house for 
chicks after weaning is 6’x8’ and 6’ high at the front. It 
need not be carefully made, as it is used only in warm 
weather. A tight roof to keep out the rain, and a wire 
netting over the window are all that are needed. One 
poultryman builds houses of this size, making them tight 
and using them for little flocks of a dozen hens through 
the winter. He builds them on skids and in the fall hauls 
them from the fields, where they are set in summer to the 
house, setting them in a row, facing south. He keeps 
Wyandottes and cares nothing for winter eggs, as his 
principal business is selling day-old chicks and broilers 
and roasters in a nearby citv, so he need not prepare for 
the production of winter eggs. 
The other coops need no further explanation than the 
