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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



The one great agent or force now relied upon to 

 combat contagion is disinfection. Sunlight disinfection 

 is best of all, and should be always operative at danger 

 points. Disinfectant material is sometimes strewn dry 

 upon board and flooring surfaces ; it is sometimes added 

 to thin whitewash ; it is sprayed into incubators and 

 over eggs and upon mucous surfaces when these can be 

 reached ; it is given as a solution 

 in the drinking water; it is fur- 

 nished the fowls in the form of 

 tablets to be taken in internal 

 doses, individually. The best of 

 the M. D.'s are coming more 

 and more to order first a pur- 

 gative, to be followed by a bowel 

 disinfectant, for nearly all dis- 

 eases. So many and such varied 

 diseases are now being laid to 

 the door of incomplete digestion 

 (either of stomach or of bowels) 

 that it seems quite the part of 

 folly not to learn the theory and 

 ' of modern medical practice and 

 This may be, first, in the 



Fowl's Gizzard, Abnormal 

 through Disease 



the " first aid methods ' 

 to apply them to daily life, 

 use of proper family foods and proper ways of eating ; 

 second, in applying these laws as far as is practicable to 

 the care of the various animals under our care. The 

 D. V. M.'s are following close upon the methods of the 

 M. D.'s and both are using applied common sense freely. 

 Some of the best poultrymen rely largely upon air- 

 slaked lime for disinfection. Thrown upon roosts and 

 floors and into coops and nests, common testimony rates 



