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incubator, wash and disinfect it thoroughly with a 

 good disinfectant. Provide low wire trays that 

 will hold ten or a dozen eggs each, and fit well into 

 the incubator, having a cover for each one. At 

 the eighteenth day put the eggs into these baskets, 

 and, after hatching, keep the chicks in them forty- 

 eight hours. They may then be placed in the 

 brooder, where plenty of loose litter shoidd be 

 provided, to allow all droppings to sift down out 

 of sight. It is suspected that chicks get infection 

 by picking up such droppings. 



By this plan we keep chicks from wandering 

 about the incubator and spreading the disease, 

 and fortunately it has proved a great success in 

 large poultry plants. 



Chickens raised tmder hens are kept in small 

 groups by the nature of things, and white diarrhea 

 seldom becomes a menace where such flocks are 

 given good care. 



In general there is no cure for the real thing. 

 Strong stock, clean quarters, clean food, and good 

 sanitation will prevent white diarrhea imder or- 

 dinary circumstances. If, in spite of these pre- 

 cautions, the scourge appears, appeal to your local 

 station, or, if that is impossible, write to the Storrs, 



