278 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
Another successful egg raiser says: ‘‘Into the pens 
(which are 11x12 feet) is put about four bushels of fine 
earth, and then dry forest leaves to the depth of one 
foot or more, over which scatter whole corn, at the after- 
noon feeding time, and I can assure you there will be no 
lack of exercise. During the winter I keep fifteen fowls 
in each pen of the above size, and occasionally add plas- 
ter and fresh leaves as they are reduced to powder, which 
serve to keep the fowls warm and dry. All droppings 
will be worked down through the Jeaves. I have never 
had a diseased fowl, feather-puller or egg-eater since I 
began using leaves in this way. Don’t let any fear of 
filling your houses with woodmites deter you from using 
leaves, when kerosene oil end Dalmatian powder are 
both cheap and effective.” 
HEALTHY FOWLS. 
Thorough ventilation, a comfortable house, plenty of 
exercise and varied food, are the safeguards against dis- 
ease. Colds must be looked for, and treated as soon as 
noticed. If this is done promptly and thoroughly, there 
need be little fear of roup. A warm place for the ailing 
ones, soft feed, cooked, of wheat middlings and bran 
mixed, ground oats, with small allowances of Indian 
meal, in which a dose of prepared roup pills has been dis- 
solved, and made smart with cayenne pepper, is a good 
treatment. If they have a cough with the cold, burn 
flowers of sulphur in their house after they have gone to 
roost, until they are affected by the gas so they sneeze 
well. This has a wonderfully good effect. Puta small 
bunch of shavings in an old tin pan, or on a shovel, 
with a handful of the sulphur, light the shavings, and 
let it burn; shut the house up tight till they begin to 
sneeze, and then take it out. The quantity named is 
sufficient to ‘‘sneeze” two or three houses of fifty fowls 
each. 
