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scribed, and proceed at once to dose and doctor the imag- 

 inary ills. 



One of the most successful small operators the writer 

 knows, a man who has brooded twelve to fifteen hundred 

 chicks each year for a number of years, has never had 

 trouble of any kind excepting toe-picking ; and while the 

 writer has not been present every minute of the time yet 

 he is morally certain that this man has never fed or used 

 an ounce of "dope" of any kind. But he lives with his 

 chicks. If they are outdoors when young and a sudden 

 cold wind comes up, he drops whatever he may be doing 

 and puts his chicks inside. Constant care and thought 

 for the welfare of those chicks is the only panacea he 

 knows; and in the writer's estimation his is the best 

 remedy. 



The fact that he raises a larger percentage of his chicks 

 than we do would tend to prove, to us at least, that his 

 greater care shows up in his better results. 



Let that be your main reliance ; look after your chicks 

 carefully and methodically. And should trouble come to 

 you in spite of it, check back your work (as an account- 

 ant would say) — try and find the point wherein you failed 

 to properly protect them, and the finding of the error will 

 be its own best remedy. Make up for it by extra care as 

 has herein been outlined ; your chances of overcoming the 

 trouble will be far better if you follow some such method 

 than if yau try to make the correction by dosing and 

 doping. The latter method is like unto a mother whose 

 baby cries because of a loose pin and who quiets it with 

 some "doped" soothing syrup while the pin remains. If 

 you fail to go over your work and locate the cause of 



