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of fresh air. With no more than the num¬ 
ber of birds that I have mentioned in each 
pen, you will not have a sick bird, or one 
with a cold, all winter. 
Now, about the floor: personally I 
think that a clay or packed earth floor is 
the best that can be made. I have used 
wood floors ten inches off the ground, ce¬ 
ment floors of all kinds and dirt floors, 
and find the latter much the cleanest. 
Have the floor, whether of cement or 
dirt, come to the top of the foundation. 
If the ground is level and well drained 
where the house is to be located, then a 
six-inch wall is plenty and this filled up 
level within will keep out all moisture and 
insure a perfect floor. Cinders put in to 
a depth of four inches and then packed 
and tramped dirt or clay on top, will keep 
rats or vermin from burrowing, under. 
Under cement and board floors is a great 
breeding place for rats. Sixteen years’ 
work with fowls proves this house ideal. 
Amos Burtians 
Dried Meat Scrap for Poultry 
O WING to the difficulty of obtaining 
fresh lean meat and green bone, on 
account of its expense, there has been 
placed on the market a dried meat scrap 
preparation that is sold by merchants in 
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try feeds. 
In my experience I find that the best 
grade of this is one of the most valuable 
ingredients in the hen's menu. It no 
doubt is the best substitute for the insects 
and worms which constitute the natural 
meat diet of the hen. When fed to grow¬ 
ing stock, dried meat scrap greatly im¬ 
proves their size and hastens maturity, 
and to the laying hen it furnishes an abun¬ 
dant amount of the protein so essential 
for egg production. 
While these and many other advantages 
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about a year ago, when he obtained some 
meat scrap of a different firm than he had 
been patronizing, and within a few hours 
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which was also in a state of severe in¬ 
flammation. 
It seemed to be that it must be some 
corrosive substance to produce such con¬ 
dition as this, consequently an effort was 
made to locate the trouble. Chemical 
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