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When you separate a roupy hen from the flock and put 

 her in a dry draught-proof place where there is plenty of sun, 

 she will quickly recover. If you have given her roup-cure, 

 you give the cure the credit of curing her, when as a matter 

 of fact it was freedom from draught, together with the sun. 



My next experience was in a location that was very well 

 protected by trees. The wind did not reach my poultry 

 house, though it might have done so in the winter with the 

 wind coming from another direction. Here I had several 

 hundred hens and was not troubled at all with roup. 



I next established a poultry farm for a man and put up a 

 large fresh-air house 16x100 feet in size. It was seven feet 

 high at the back and nine feet high in front. The front was 

 entirely open and faced toward the east. The valley in which 

 it was located ran north and south. 



When the wind blew it swept this house from one end to 

 the other, and at roosting time all the hens would try to roost 

 in the laying room, which was at one end of the building. This 

 room was boarded up all around, so that the wind did not 

 enter it. The hens would try to get in here, and I could 

 hardly keep them out. 



This building had three air-tight walls and roof and, 

 according to the poultry papers and poultry books, it should 

 have been draught-proof. The owner, taking all his informa- 

 tion from the poultry papers and books, declared that this 

 building was draught-proof, and he showed me books, etc., 

 which would make almost anyone think that such was the 

 case. 



Many of the hens were suffering from roup, and he advised 

 me to get a good roup cure. I shut up some of these hens 

 for two weeks in one end of the house and bought a roup 

 cure, which, of course, was advertised as "the best." I tried 

 it, but the hens were no better off than they were before; in 



