AVOID HEATING FEEDS 



During the summer avoid heating feeds, such as com. 

 Also avoid decayed scraps from the table, decayed fruits, 

 etc., that might cause diarrhoea. Keep the houses clean and 

 renew nesting material frequently. 



Plant a bed of lettuce for growing fowls and feed the 

 lettuce fresh. 



SUNLIGHT 



During the winter months, give your poultry the advan- 

 tage of all the sunlight that you can. There is no better dis- 

 infectant or tonic. The larger and more plentiful the win- 

 dows, the better. Arrange and care for your poultry house 

 so that lice, mites and all filth and dampness will be elim- 

 inated. 



Give your poultry plenty of fresh air, but beware of drafts. 

 Remove from the flock those birds which commence to 

 wheeze, or make a sniffling sound at night. 



HEATING CHICKENS WITH THEIR OWN BODY HEAT 



Ventilation is one thing and heating pure fresh air is an- 

 other: remember that you cannot heat foul air: the idea is 

 to always keep the air pure but warm, not hot for baby 

 chicks, and, for growing fowls look well to your ventilating 

 system, always keeping in mind to not over heat nor, on the 

 other hand, do not chill. Keep the heat uniform and the 

 chickens comfortable. 



IN THE MATTER OF RETURNING EMPTY GRAIN 



SACKS 



To the writer's mind, this is one of the worst evils attend- 

 ant upon the poultry business. Many are the thousands of 

 dollars that are lost each year by poultry flocks coming down 

 with chickenpox, diphtheritic roup, coccidiosis, cholera, etc., 

 which are traceable directly to the evil of returning grain 

 sacks to the mills to be filled. 



In a plant where there are any of the aforementioned dis- 

 eases, which are both contagious and infectious, these dis- 

 eases are easily traceable to such sources. And the quicker 

 the manufacturers and distributors of feeds and the poultry- 

 men awaken to this fact, the better everybody concerned will 

 be off. Not that anyone is particularly careless in the matter, 



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