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headed ones on either side. She told how to handle 

 incubators, brooders, laying hens ; discoursed on the 

 painful sickness of the sitting hen, — wrapped in such a 

 high fever, — and radiated wisdom in general. Fate 

 was most unkind to her, after all this generosity, and, 

 during this particular season, all her enterprises were 

 hounded by " ill luck." Just as the early chicks were 

 getting a fine start, a trio of neighborly cats, jealous, 

 possibly, for the laurels of the neighborhood, attacked a 

 brooder run in the daytime and took, at one clip, fifty 

 of Miladi's up-to-date youngsters ! After the Arabian 

 was purloined, they locked the door to his apartments ; 

 this tells the whole story of loss by vermin. Which 

 is better, poultry keepers all, to pay out good, hard 

 moneys for concrete and lumber and wire netting to 

 make things shipshape and safe ; or to pay out 25, 50, 

 or 100 chicks "on account" (of experience) and tlien go 

 and buy the lumber, etc. .'' 



Table of Items from Experience 



Item I. Look out for the Family Cat ! 



Item II. Look out for Rats and Rubbish Piles ! 



Item III. Look out for Fox Terriers, which are "Fly 

 By-Nights ! " 



Item IV. Look out for Crows, Hawks, and all the 

 Woods Haunters ! 



Item V. Look out for Minks, .Weasels, Water Rats, 

 and all the Water Vermin. 



Item VI. Look out for Mites and Bedbugs and all 

 House and Roost and Nest Vermin ! 



Item VII. Look out for Head Lice and Vent Lice 

 and Wing Lice and Thigh Lice and Feather-eating 



