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of development and if you let them get soggy wet and 

 chill you will surely have a run of colds. Do not let them 

 outdoors very early in the morning. Give them a chance 

 to have their morning drink and to eat some mash first. 



Being able to give the young pullets this extra protec- 

 tion with food, water and scratch quarters available, is 

 what makes the use of laying-house quarters superior to 

 the portable colony house system. 



Should colds develop in spite of your care, give them 

 the salts and tonic treatment, the salts one day and the 

 tonic twice, a day apart ; if they are 8 weeks old or older, 

 double the dose both of salts and tonic. If the colds 

 continue give them this treatment each week ; and in case 

 of a severe attack continue the tonic steadily for a week 

 or ten days. 



Should the birds take to piling up at night (under the 

 dropboards), put on the curtain when they go to bed and 

 raise it part ways on your last inspection. The curtain 

 makes of the compartment what is practically a closed 

 box and several hundred birds in it will devleop a great 

 deal of heat in a very short time. The opening at the 

 bottom of the curtain will allow a sufficient supply of 

 fresh air for an hour or two. But there will not be suffi- 

 cient air for the whole night. The closed curtain is used 

 simply to warm up the compartment as quickly as pos- 

 sible ; and warming it up quickly will induce them to 

 spread out before they sweat. 



The January pullets are kept on the chick mash until 

 they are at least 4 months old; and if they are well de- 

 veloped and many full-blown combs are in evidence at 



