Isolate all affected birds and feed the entire flock as directed. 

 Provide plenty of litter for the chickens to scratch in. Also 

 provide fine grit, oyster shell and ground bone. Be careful 

 and do not overfeed, but feed all they will eat. Give milk in 

 any form. Give all the green feed they will eat. Keep plenty 

 of clean fresh water on hand. Drinking crocks should be dis- 

 infected at least once a day. Any good washing powder and 

 hot water will answer the purpose: or lysol is a very good 

 thing to use for disinfecting. 



POULTRY PROFITS 



Poultry raising like any other business can be made prof- 

 itable if one will only apply themselves. Under present high 

 food costs, no one can afford to be without a few hens in the 

 back yard or on the farm and commercial egg farming on 

 a large scale is a most wonderful business. When scientific- 

 ally handled, the cost of keeping a hen for a year is not great 

 while the egg yield of well managed flocks produces a hand- 

 some profit. The secret of profits from poultry raising is 

 found in three words — weed, breed, and feed. Weed out the 

 non-layers, breed for heavy producers, feed the elements 

 necessary for vigorous growth and profitable egg production. 

 Hit or miss methods invariably lead to failure. Follow the 

 simple rules of common sense and you are sure of profit. Let 

 your hens help reduce the high cost of your living and in- 

 crease your bank roll accordingly. 



Always breed from hens and not pullets. Experiments 

 show that chicks hatched from eggs of mature hens are 

 stronger and more vigorous than those hatched from pullets' 

 eggs. Never use a half -grown cockrel for breeding purposes. 

 A cockrel should not be used under ten months old and if the 

 best fertility in eggs is to be had, stud the cockrels. The best 

 results are obtained by separating the breeders into pens 

 and alternating with the cockrels, taking the one out every 

 two weeks and putting in a fresh bird. 



PREMATURE MOULTING OF POULTRY FLOCKS 



During the season of 1921 a great many fiocks moulted 

 prematurely, due to the untoward weather conditions, the 

 spring being attended by cold late rains which produced the 

 same effect on the birds as consistent dipping would do. 

 There seems to have been no way of preventing this condi- 



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