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^ mer ican Agriculturist, July 5, 1924 
Common Flock Troubles 
hmpness and Poor Ventilation Hardest on Hens 
URING the months of June, July, and 
a part of August last summer I was 
joing the commercial poultry culling in 
■Steuben, Livingston, and Schuyler coun¬ 
ts under direction of the farm bureaus, 
luring that time I examined approxi- 
, a tely 35,000 hens, in flocks ranging 
' r0 m a couple dozen to over 2000, but 
the average was from 150 to 300. I was 
nside of all conceivable types, sizes, and 
■onditions of hen houses. 
Although it would do the average flock 
|no harm to import some high blood cock¬ 
erels or in other way, improve the blood 
l a nd breeding of the stocks, I think it 
ff0 uld do the most of us more good to use 
[that, same time, energy and expense, to 
the housing and management of the 
flock. 
Dampness is the greatest enemy ot egg- 
production, and can be combated by 
proper ventilation and floors. 
Too Much Glass Not Good 
As for the housing I think that the 
greatest mistake is to use too much glass 
and not enough muslin, in fact the correct 
regulation of ventilation is the most seri¬ 
ous of all the poultry keepers’ troubles. 
Of course this can be overdone but very 
seldom is. Cornell finds that the best 
results are obtained when using equal 
amounts of glass and muslin about 1 
square foot of glass and 1 square foot ol 
muslin to every 20 square foot of floor 
space. Overcrowding is another fact that 
does not pay. There should be from 
three to four square feet of floor per bird 
according to the size of the house, the 
larger the house the less floor space is 
required per bird. 
The type of roof that seems to have the 
least objections and the most advantages 
is the shed roof. It is cheaper and easier 
to build, provides excellent ventilation, 
keeps the air content low, does not inter¬ 
fere with the light and provides plenty ot 
head room for the keeper. W ith a hinged 
board just under the roof, front and back, 
for summer ventilation this type is as cool 
as any, and is easy to keep the dampness 
drained out. 
Dirt Floors Are too Damp 
Dirt floors are always more or less 
damp, impossible to get really clean, 
provide a breeding place for diseases and 
parasites. Furthermore, the litter gets 
dirty very quickly. Board floors are, m 
most cases, either cold, a harboring place 
for rats, or rot out quickly, and if too near 
to the ground are damp. Concrete seems 
to be the nearest perfect of all floors, pro¬ 
vided it is properly made. Ihe floor 
should be made on a bed of stone, from 18 
to 30 inches deep, according to the kind ot 
soil, but in all cases the foundation trench 
should be deep enough to give perfect 
drainage. When the floor is made there 
should be included as an insulation, one- 
eighth of an inch of tar or a double laA er 
of tarred or roofing paper. I have yet to 
see the concrete floor that is dry when not 
insulated. The usual method is to lay'- 
inches of a 1-3-5 mixture then put on the 
insulating material and drive roofing nails 
in the cement to help hold the top layer, 
leaving the heads projecting one-halt inch. 
The top is usually 1 inch of 1-3 mixture. 
Feed Heavier at Night 
Most farmers have the right idea as to 
the feeds, but many make a mistake by 
feeding as much in the morning as they do 
at night thereby forcing the hens to eat 
less mash. Best results seem to be had by 
feeding about 2 quarts in the morning and 
6 quarts at night per 100 hens in the 
winter. And don’t be afraid to get too 
much litter in the coop. 
Last but not least, in over halt ol the 
cases where the hens do not lay as well as 
they should, the reason is lice and mites. 
A piece of blue ointment and vaseline 
50-50 the size of a pea under the wings 
’N* # and around the vent, is as good as any 
/ (|louse powder. Used or “dead motor-oil 
and kerosene, mixed in equal parts and 
painted on the perches and other breeding 
places will get the mites.—I. C. Lafever. 
Better to Prevent Gapes than 
to Wait to Cure Them 
R EFERRING to Elmer Whittaker’s 
letter in the American Agricul¬ 
turist, I think the best plan is to prevent 
gapes rather than to cure them after the 
chicks have got them. The West Vir¬ 
ginia experiment station publishes a 
bulletin on the prevention of gapes 
by the use of creolin put in the drinking 
water. 
The creolin causes the worm to loosen 
its hold and it is thrown out before it 
gets to where it does the damage. The 
method of administering this remedy is 
very simple. Just drop three drops of 
creolin in a quart of water and keep the 
chicks from getting other water until 
they learn to drink the water with creolin 
in it. Give the creolin from the very 
start and keep it up until the chicks are 
large enough that the gape worm will not 
bother them as the remedy is a preventa¬ 
tive rather than a cure. 
We have tried dusting the chicks with 
slaked lime and it helps to save the 
chicks from death from gapes. 
Creolin can be bought at almost ant 
drug store, put up in bottles with a cork 
convenient for dropping it and I think 
that it will prove a valuable remedy for 
ridding the poultry yard of gapes. But 
anyone trying it for the first time should 
not expect it to cure every bad case of 
gapes after the chicks have the gapes, 
but they should remember that it is a 
preventative rather than a cure.—A. J. 
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W E all know that it is a mighty good 
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Why Broiler Prices Vary So 
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I doubt very much if it pays to capon- 
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