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Whatever tends to alleviate the sufferings of 

 domestic animals kept for our own gratification, 

 it is our duty to study, for we must not allow 

 them to pine and die unaided. 



We ought to Jmow all that is worth knowing, 

 and make ourselves eligible for the degTee of 

 M.D. (Poultry), equal to all emergencies of hen 

 sickness. 



Take their diseases in time ; your own prompt 

 attention to their wants may ward off a serious 

 malady, too often resulting in death ; procrastina- 

 tion, is as pernicious in poultry keeping as in 

 anjrthing else. 



There should be attached to every poultry 

 establishment, a hospital, viz., a warm, well- 

 lighted house, littered down with straw, to which 



