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month and the last feed on the third day, I add salts to physic 

 them and carry off the worms. It is useless to doctor for 

 worms without using a physic after giving the worm 

 medicine. 



Any one of these three methods will do the work. Do not 

 neglect to treat them once a month for worms, as worms cause 

 more runts, small bone and poor color chickens than all other 

 things combined. One often reads of chickens growing light 

 and tubercular, but I wager that in nine cases out of every ten 

 it is nothing but a bad case of worms. 



FREE RANGE. 



There are a great many breeders that differ in regard to 

 which is the best method for raising show birds. Some claim 

 free range is best, others claim the yarding system is best, and 

 still others claim that a coop 3x6 makes a coop large enough 

 for a dozen breeders, and ample room to grow twenty-five 

 chicks. 



I have studied and watched nearly every system known for 

 raising show birds, and I have visited a great many poultry 

 plants where the different systems are used, just to study the 

 general health and vigor of the birds under the different sys- 

 tems. I have found that nature's system of free range is the 

 best for producing show birds of the highest quality. I don't 

 mean to say that there haven't been some good chickens raised 

 under some of the systems mentioned above, but I have found 

 them to be my very easiest competitors to defeat in the show 

 room, as their stock lacks stamina and the best qualities of 

 feather. 



When I say free range is the best, I don't mean that the 

 chickens must have free range from the day they are hatched 



