it, as it is a great many times responsible for the starting 

 of bowel trouble. 



CROUP IN POULTRY FLOCKS 



This may sound odd or "phunny" to say that chickens 

 have croup, but it is nevertheless true. I have met with a 

 great many cases in poultry flocks that I would call croup 

 and I treated several birds so affected by mixing one part of 

 peroxide of hydrogen to two parts of water, giving them a 

 teaspoonf ul and the next morning they were alright. It does 

 the bird no harm whatever and no one needs to be afraid to 

 use it on valuable birds. I thought that this would be worth 

 telling to the poultry public. I have never had a case similar 

 in birds of my own raising. There were no drafts in these 

 poultry houses and I don't know where the birds got it, but 

 they had it just the same. I examined them for roup but it 

 was not roup. The birds simply began to cough and gasp as 

 a child would choke with the croup, so I'll say it was croup 

 and if your chickens are ever affected in this manner, try 

 this remedy and I'm sure you will be surprised to see how 

 quickly they will be cured. 



THE MAKING AND KEEPING OF POULTRY RECORDS 



The most successful poultry plants in operation today are 

 those whose managers have an accurate data concerning the 

 business. There are certain things that must be known and 

 likewise certain records that must be kept if success is to be 

 obtained. In order to know the profit that has been made 

 during a certain length of time, there must be known the 

 cost of everything, including feed, labor, supplies, etc. Also 

 there must be the receipts from eggs, broilers, culls, etc. 



PROTECTING POULTRY FLOCKS 



A good way to protect poultry flocks from disease and in- 

 crease the egg yield is to pin grain sacks on the fence or 

 corrals on the windward side and keep them well sprayed 

 with a good disinfecting spray. 



There is more accomplished by preventing diseases, mites 

 and lice in poultry flocks than there is to get rid of these 

 conditions once the fowls become afflicted with them. It is 

 the care of the chicken that pays and unless one uses every 

 effort they will not succeed as well as they should. Spraying, 



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