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On farms where fowls are kept merely as a side line, the bodies 

 are apt to be tossed into the manure pit. Sometimes an effort 

 is made to cover them with the manure, but this does not remove 

 the evil, if the bodies were infected with disease. At some time 

 or other this manure is going to be spread about as fertilizer, and 

 with it will go the diseased remains of the dead fowls. Most of 

 the remains will be consumed, though not always the disease, 



(Courtesy U. S. Dep't Agriculture) 

 Fig. 2i8. — Inexpensive colony growing coop built on skids. 



for some disease germs live for months in the soil, especially 

 where there is heat, as in a manure pile, to further nurture them. 



Hog Pen. — Frequently dead fowls are thrown into the hog 

 pen. Even when they are consumed by the hogs, this is not fit 

 food for hogs. Usually some parts of the remains lie about 

 long enough for other fowls to find it, and run off with it. Maybe 

 a dog will steal a body from the pen. 



Pit or Well. — Some poultry keepers throw their dead into a 



