38 Hubbard's poultry secrets, 



feathers in a much shorter time and their plumage will be in 

 the best possible condition. I have never seen anything to 

 equal it for keeping young and old stock in prime condition. 



WORMS ON GROWING CHICKS. 



I consider worms one of the worst things that a poultry- 

 man has to contend with in the growing of chickens, as they 

 ruin more flocks of growing chickens than any other one 

 thing. You see so much in the poultry papers about lice, but. 

 you hardly see anything about worms, and I know that worms 

 cause ten failures in the chicken business, where lice cause but - 

 one. I will admit that growing chicks should be kept as free 

 from lice as possible for best results, but you can have some 

 lice on your birds and still grow into husky, big birds. But 

 if they have worms I don't care how much you know about 

 feeding or what your method of feeding is, there is no method 

 known that will grow them into show birds, if something isn't 

 done to rid them of the worms. I rid my growing chickens of 

 worms once each month all through their growing period, and 

 I think that is one of the reasons that I have had such good 

 success in the show room. 



The first treatment for worms should be at the age of two 

 months. You will find the symptoms of worms as follows : 

 The chickens seem to be hungry all the time, eat a lot, but do 

 not feather out as they should. The feathers that do grow 

 stand up or out, and won't lay down and follow the body as 

 they should. Their backs remain bare a long time and a little 

 later they seem to look thin between the eyes, their beaks seem 

 to be longer than they ought to be, and still later they will not 

 have much meat on their breast bones. These are all sure 

 symptoms of worms, but the worms should be gotten rid of 



