SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
relieving them, as far as possible, from 
pain and suffering. 
There are very many 
diseases that attack and 
destroy poultry. Preven- 
tive methods of combating disease are 
much preferable to curative methods. I 
have discontinued giving medicine or doc- 
toring poultry in any way. I believe that 
nature’s way of combating disease is far 
better than anything that man has ever 
devised. Nature’s way of resisting dis- 
ease is by condemning to death every 
individual that is not capable of resisting 
all of the diseases that prey upon them, 
thereby cutting short the career of those 
weaklings and preventing a transmission 
of their blood to future generations of the 
flock. By cutting short the life of these 
weaklings the flock will grow stronger by 
the predominance of blood from the 
stronger members of the flock; and if man 
will aid nature in this process of elimi- 
nating the weaklings, the flock will grow 
strong more rapidly still. When he doc- 
tors the weaklings and seeks to prolong 
their lives, he is working against nature, 
and, if he succeeds in his effort, he will 
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Diseases of 
Poultry 
