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of most birds going light. I have proved this to my 

 entire satisfaction. Corn or cracked corn will not do 

 at all kept in hoppers before your hens, as they will grow 

 poor and go light on it unless on plenty of range, but it 

 can be kept before them without injury where two or 

 three other kinds of grain are kept before them at all 

 times If you follow my system in every detail you will 

 have no medicine to buy, as sickness will scarcely be 

 known on a free-range plant. But if you have a small 

 yarded plant overcrowded in a very low, damp place, 

 why then you will get some sick birds, and colds and 

 roup will be apt to break out in a light form any time, 

 and in such a place you should always keep a good roup 

 cure on hand, and there is nothing I have ever tried as 

 good as Conkey's Roup Cure. This will also tone your 

 birds right up and is a splendid tonic during the spring 

 and fall. Often in September, about the loth, a dis- 

 temper is apt to strike all your young stock, and affect 

 them in various ways, especially the stock not fully ma- 

 tured ; so I strongly advise on all yarded plants to give 

 Conkey's Roup Cure in drinking water, one-half dose from 

 first to tenth of September, when I would give full dose 

 through rest of month and first half of October, and you 

 will be well paid for it. All of Conkey's remedies are 

 first-class and their advertisement will be found. in this 

 book. 



Hill's Bromide Quinine Tablets are also very good 

 for severe individual cases which will occasionally break 

 out. A tablet night and morning for a couple of days 

 will generally bring most any bird in good shape if taken 

 in time. They can be bought in any drug store for 25 

 cents per package, and should always be kept on hand. 

 You must expect to lose some birds during the spring, 

 when they are laying heavy, but your loss should be light 

 if my instructions are followed, and your yards are 

 plowed up as early as possible in the spring, especially on 



