and yards, the egg yield would be larger and a great deal of 

 grief and likewise discouragement and failures avoided in 

 the poultry business. 



It is one thing to allow the chickens to run wild and roost 

 outside in trees, etc., and another thing to house them up in 

 an improperly ventilated house where cold draughts of air 

 will surely aif ect the birds if great care is not taken to avoid 

 same. 



Never use water to spray with for one thing, and if you 

 will take notice, especially in the afternoon, which way the 

 prevailing wind comes from and protect your chickens ac- 

 cordingly, you will have healthier flocks as a whole. AVhere 

 there are open yards, a good plan is to tack sacks around the 

 fences and keep them well sprayed with a disinfecting spray. 

 This will be of a great benefit. As a rule it is best to face the 

 poultry house to the south if this can be conveniently done. 



With the inclosed system, you can protect your chickens 

 from cold drafts of air and winds in any manner which 

 might suggest itself in the way of construction of houses. 

 More good chickens are killed in the manner discussed than 

 in any other manner and likewise more eggs are lost. 



WHY CHICKENS HAVE CHICKEN POX AND DIPTHER- 



ITIC ROUP 



To begin with, some poultry men argue that chicken pox, 

 like small pox and other contagious and infectious diseases, 

 is carried through the air. If this is true, and it probably is, 

 then a very good plan, though it may seem like mollycoddling 

 a chicken, is this : where the open yard system is practiced, 

 use jute sacks tacked around the yards, or rather the ends 

 fastened together, which can be done easily by passing a nail 

 over the wire in the fence and through the sack. After this 

 is done, spray the sacks thoroughly with any good disinfect- 

 ing spray, always avoiding water. Also this will be found to 

 be very beneficial to poultry flocks, acting as a windbreak. 



Some argue that chicken pox, which in reality is bird pox, 

 or to be exact small pox, of chicken flocks. It is carried by 

 birds which fly from one yard to the other. Also it may be 

 carried on the clothing or shoes of persons or more probably 

 by sacks brought from the feed yard which have previously 

 been gathered from some poultryman's feed house where 

 possibly some chicken afflicted with the disease has been. 

 The only thing to be done by any one entering the poultry 



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