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before the last symptoms appear, as your birds have had a bad 

 setback when their beaks look long and they haven't much 

 meat on their breast bones. Of the different things I have 

 used to rid the chickens of worms, I find that garlic ground fine 

 in a meat grinder and mixed in their feed once a day every 

 other week, is the best. I have used the garlic 

 method and had good success for a number of years, but for 

 the last five years I have used turpentine and find it as good 

 a method as I have ever tried. It will do the trick if it is 

 used right. The amount of turpentine to be used all depends 

 on the size of your flock. 



We will say your flock will eat six quarts of mash to a feed. 

 First take three quarts of hominy and put it in a water pail. 

 Then take about Yi gills of turpentine and pour over the 

 hominy, and mix it all thoroughly together by hand, rubbing 

 it between the hands to get it evenly mixed. Then take a 

 quart of ground liver and add one quart of water. Use this 

 liquid to mix up the hominy and turpentine. Use this mixture 

 quite wet so all the hominy will stick to the liver. The day 

 you feed this worm mixture you should take away all other 

 grains. Feed them all they will eat in the morning and at 

 noon. At night give them all they will eat of the same mix- 

 ture with a little salts added. The reason I use the salts in 

 the last mash is to physic them, so as to carry off the worms. 

 By using this method once a month you will keep your grow- 

 ing chickens free from worms, and their feathers will grow 

 the right way, and by fall you will have very few undersized 

 chickens. 



This year I tried Spratt's worm powder, which is put up for 

 horses and cattle, and found it worked well. It is put up in 

 small boxes, one dose in a box for a horse. I use one of these 

 boxes for every twenty growing chickens. I give it in their 

 regular mash twice a day for three days in succession each 



