120 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



they get well while they remained in the same draught that 

 was giving them the roup? Not one of them got well. 



My large house in the oak grove was now finished, and I 

 put the pullets in it and in a short time there was not a 

 single case of roup among them. They had not a drop of 

 roup-cure after they were put into this house. None of these 

 pullets had very badly swelled heads at any time. Their 

 eyes were swollen a little and they were running at the nose, 

 but none of them were in the last stages of roup; in the new 

 house they were entirely cured. 



The brooder house that they had been raised in was 

 absolutely new and no chicks had ever been raised in it 

 previously. The hens did not, therefore, get the roup from 

 an outside source, but developed it among themselves. 



Now, what was it that caused them to get well? It was 

 not the coal- oil; it was not the roup-cure; what was it? The 

 house they were put into was in a large oak grove, a quarter 

 of a mile wide by half a mile long. The trees were about 

 75 feet high and very close together — so close, in fact, that 

 you could scarcely see the sky through them. This house 

 was completely protected from the wind, as these trees 

 formed a perfect windbreak. There were no strong currents 

 of air inside the house, although the air was slowly drifting 

 through it; inside, it was always nice and fresh. While it is 

 true that the yards were damp in the winter time, it was 

 dry inside the house, and after using it I never had a single 

 hen with any kind of disease whatever. 



After such an experience, can you blame me if I have no 

 faith in roup cures? Roup is an unnatural condition of hens 

 and, being caused by draught, there is only one thing to do, 

 and that is to remove the cause. 



Roup comes from a cold, pure and simple. It is very easily 

 cured in its early stages by placing the birds in a place free 



