1. pets
2. birds

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ADDRESS,
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B.
Publisher,
MITCHELL,
Copyright, 1886, by
R.
B.
Mitchell.
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Air
In
that
the
up
form
in
the
regard
;
the
cause,
our
own
in
;
a
and
do
we
cure
set
and
and
study,
of
poultry
FANNY
not
tend
pre-
concerning
not
condensed
experiments,
prevention,
do
we
knowledge
supreme
diseases
give
world
poultry
and
poultry
only
we
of
results
to
of
cure
authorities
the
to
absolute
possess
and
causes
as
we
work
this
offering
ourselves
convenient
observation
diseases.
FIELD.
HEALTH
POULTRY
IN THE
By
FANNY
THE
CAUSES
CONCERNING
YARD.
FIELD.
OF
DISEASE
AMONG
POULTRY.
.
diseases
Poultry
have
cholera,
roup,
it is almost
sickness
of
One
may
be
into
the
in
disease
the
the
in
hurt
not
when
to
chicken
house
a
The
will
coops
and
have
in
Roosting
out
of
the
current
and
doors,
Lice
into
are
air
the
the
"
that
in
roup,
too
all
conditions
form
is
cases
filth;
filth
of
germs
of
which
in all
poultry
The
as
cause.
whatever
cases
and
should,
among
in
it
is taken
poultry
some
sickness
fowls
among
than
who
keeps
fowls
to
strikes
one-sided
the
sort
be
continual
in
causes
damp
in
bined.
com-
houses
and
consumption,
all
the
of
cause
Fowls
alike, rarely
over
broken
of way,
disease.
that
window
causes
that
"take
or
crack
the
colds
roost
cold;"
in
the
which
it is
wall
often
ills.
sole
cause
to
fined
con-
dampness
rheumatism,
cramps,
closely
half-dozen
chicks
and
dry place
a
or
It
mention."
direct
them
and
roost
other
any
colds,
to
diseases.
have
they
them
damp;
chicks
through
comes
hurt
serious
many
rain, provided
little
canker,
of
cause
always"
is another
serious
frequently
death
disease.
it does
numerous
air
a
but
"most
more
the
fowls
more
in
draughts
where
of
strikes
develop
ills
other
many
about
is
fight
to
the
the
remove
filth, and
by
while
but
cause
another
raiser
poultry
to
is
shelter;
off
and
and
houses
run
that
kills
coops
certain
somewhere,
cause
poultry keeper
drink;
or
a
to
by filthy surroundings.
desire
they
in
to
the
"just happen"
never
medicine
sickness
generated
poultry
fowls
with
Fowls
is always
ascertain
food
it is almost
Dampness
does
of
the
certainly aggravated
are
go
in
probably
are
fowls
unchanged,
causes
or
ill; there
fowls, first
chief
air,
sick
remain
his
system
diseases
to
among
other
dose
chance.
by
come
any
or
useless
produced" the
of
never
of
the
untimely
"taking
off"
of
whole
i)
HEALTH
broods
of
among
older
the
by
that
Lack
many
is
brooder-mothered
chicks
of vigor on
in the
the
would
of roup
for,might
that
of
have
and
result
of
been
ills that
sickness
disease
gaining
is better
and
at
But
I do
to
"keep
in
good
week,
of
better
poultry
attention
banish
the
time
to
advise
disease
occasion
which
refer
the
they
to
and
I here
to
the
of
cause
from
sickness
unhealthy
that the systems
flock.
healthy
a
loose
Many
utterlyat
was
"new
of
rooster,"
loss
a
the
or
the other
among
also
an
to
half-
fowls.
directlyresponsible
DISEASE.
the
majority of
work
at
his flocks; and
"dose"
the
the
let
the
but
cases,
natural
poultry-keeper
right time, prevent
me
tell you
fiftypercent, cheaper
fowls
your
are
that
vention
pre-
easier than
and
done
proper
of
the
like"
are
and
house
and
can
kept
were
assure
of
they
pillsor
care,
keep
cannot
powders
fowls
together with
killed
you
in
good
that
you
if the
care
strict
almost
health
for market
every
the
surroundings,will
followed
faithfully
part of this book.
that
Long experience in
and
they
I
it.
food
I have
until
medicine;
recommend
with
something
continuallywith
quarter's worth
a
shell
fowls
"weakly
so
poultry yard.
cure
so
flesh.
little extra
a
that
me
of
why
reason
chicks
general mismanagement,
have
left the
drop
closely
are
sick.
sanitaryconditions
when
to
die
from
turned
it is about
are
you
convinced
administering one
measures
and
and
under-feeding are
among
swallowing
let them
the
doing
If your
without
has
and
they
well."
health
poultry
die.
diseases
to
the
to
once
poultry is,in
cure,
after
not
them
lowered
any
that
one
is another
into
PREVENT
TO
It is also
poultry-keeper
back
traced
foothold
a
than
doctoring fowls
disease
been
of
fowls
among
stock
victims
the
carelessness,neglect and
from
first victims
begets like,"
afflictchicken
among
by taking thought
can,
the
legs and
disease
which
HOW
Since
actuallycause
overcome.
introduce
bought
were
the
FIELD.
strength has
yards.
in the
Like
"
Improper food, over-feedingand
for many
not
disease
small
fall easy
resist
cholera
or
of
fail up
and
often
Strange fowls
hens
and
poultry yard.
stronger chickens
account
may
whose
are
part of the parent
generally weakly
outbreak
fowls
lice
frequent cause
a
of houses
are
they
that
of
hordes
limits
death
dozen
quite certajn
of
FANNY
along.
exercise
the
to
Lack
stock
is
attacks
comes
of
confined
and
fowls, it
BY
YARD"
little chicks; and, while
downy
constant
disease
POULTRY
THE
IN
from
without
preventive
will seldom
have
HEALTH
Guard
1.
would
the
on
See
2.
without
animal
poultry-house,the
under
droppings
the
from
house.
(oftener when
whitewash
poultry diseases
among
your
daily about
fowls, until
adding
2
made
all
When
spaded
or
fowls
ploughed
occasional
an
every
prevent
spading
the
removed,
roost
week
the
fine
a
much
is
fectant
disin-
some
is
the
prepared
by
Sprinkle about
by
Another
five
disease
frequented by
water.
nozzle.
disinfectant
gallons of
in
are
weather;
warm
the
of
habit
an
applicationof
out
of
doors
in
of
portion
a
and
stench
mid-summer
neighborhood),
disinfectants
of
the
droppings
contagious
places
in
in
neighbors, use
best
premises.
the
immediate
near
decaying
plaster" over
least
When
air.
premises
or
the
remove
at
your
quarts
during
they
week
the
about
land
or
once
all
yards
to
lime
and
water,
fresh
earth
that
arises
from
the
yard
and
is
then
should
when
even
loafingshould
be
be
they
purified
ashes.
or
weather
warm
and
ground spaded,
intolerable
the
and
about
of
acid.
confined
are
up
the fowls
When
be
the
a
copperas
carbolic
crude
once
of
three
of
pounds
large the place where
at
run
pint of
earth
those
with
not
for little
coops
decayed
no
anywhere
thoroughly.
to
watering pot
a
half
acid
you
thoroughly ventilated,
water,
dry
as
of
poultry-house be
everything
fall, and
One
is past.
carbolic
of
"
houses, yards,
by dissolvingthree
adding
by
among
the
common
a
flock, or
danger
ounces
of
means
house
of
and
prevalent in
are
the
as
coops
sleeping in draughts
kind
any
and
the
inside
of
stagnant
often
as
Every spring
the
present
roost, and
the
chicken
are
coops
danger
no
and
always place the
chiccken
absorbent
Every morning sprinkle some
for
7
FIELD.
command.
your
filth of
no
selected
yards
Allow
vegetable matter,
or
at
the
to
occupants
fowls, clean.
the
occupied by
the
the
Keep
ground
FANNY
poultry houses
place
poultry-houseand
the
that
exposing
3.
in the
and
artificially,
it
of
dryest spot
BY
YARD"
If the
pestilence.
a
naturally,drain
drained
chicks
POULTRY
against dampness
against
well
THE
IN
the
thrown
droppings
often
on
neglected
should
enough
outdoor
to
roosting
places.
Chicken
of
chicks
ground
should
moved
are
often
away
coops
enough
with
sand, gravel,
4.
Keep
5.
Avoid
to
or
dry
fowls
earth
and
they
prevent
of
and
cleaned
in, and
handful
a
be
air-slaked
before
chicks
over-crowding.
be
must
foul
the
whitewashed
moved
odors.
coop
free from
and
After
lime,
and
is moved
lice.
whenever
the
each
then
new
family
droppings scraped
cleaning sprinkle the
throw
back.
a
on
a
shovelful
of
8
HEALTH
keep
the
alike
be
Keep
avoided.
and
always keep
lime
in some
especiallywould
and
like;"
Have
8.
be
has
been
thoroughly
the
contrive
"ways
and
any
of
I do
as
to
make
about,
down
the
about
Here
wash
is
Apply
be
that
it
and
this
to
and
put
will
get
into
used
this
place
should
it
be
or
be
to
is not
of
the
the
apart from
well
of
for idle
as
act
food,
drops of
the
and
house
they
of
rest
small
a
for exercise.
and
little,
few
a
if
matter
disease.
and
day,
a
of
right place
iron
without
until
in the
remark
to
them
beings.
half-sick
once
yard
Keep
human
about
tincture
they
drink.
the
that
generally appreciated by poultry-keepers.
poultry-keeper
the
in
twenty
poultry-house, but
half-way applicationof
and
prepare
of
every
it
on
all
in houses
for their lives.
disease
them
scratch
allowance
paint;
it in
uses
the
work
whitewash
and
in
cracks
and
add
of
part
whitewash:
use
then
pailful used
every
mixture
After
flock.
premises, no
keep
limits
as
but
eat
one
a
to
way
thickness
to
sick fowls
where
does
a
to
way
is not
the
half
work
left undone.
be
sure
thoroughly
chance
good
good
a
the
about
sulphur,
well
as
fowls
whitewash
They
for all the
done, and
might
for not
wonder,
not
the
the
upon
them
seems
preventive
it effective.
make
here
the
to
for idle
mope
cut
a
of
contagious
free from
are
confined
Right
lime
rest
that
roup.
general quarters
breeders,"
"best
means"
cause,
brought
are
better, give Douglass Mixture,
value
and
with
they
are
fowls
Whitewash.
And
afflicted
mischief
finds
apparent
any
are
fowls
When
11.
the
sure
are
When
Satan
busy.
from
of the
yards
flock until you
10.
away
fowls
strange
the
from
come
the
weakly
fowls
from
breeding
'
'
seem
disinfected.
and
cleaned
When
9.
fowls
for
used
from
treated
and
of
attack
that
fowls
avoid
to
you
severe
a
building apart
some
confined
can
from
recovered
seemingly
have
advise
I
oyster shells, or
crushed
from
unhealthy fowls, or
from
breed
times,
themselves.
help
can
all
it at
have
can
and
quantity to
over-feeding should
and
fowls
the
gravel, charcoal,
they
where
shape,
Never
7.
of
supply
a
where
water
pure
sufficient in
let it be
Semi-starvation
condition.
good
in
fowls
FIELD.
FANNY
BY
"
and
food,
only fresh, wholesome
Feed
6.
YARD
POULTRY
THE
IN
the
stir into
a
a
and
rough
coops,
good
lice and
it three
except
brush
and
places.
gape
worms
four
of
the
half-barrel
a
or
tablespoonful
house
with
Fix
carbolic
will
of
acid.
roosting-perches,
plenty
When
pounds
of
of
this
have
muscle,
mixture
but
a
so
is
poor
THE
CONCERNING
I expect
hesitate
it
tell you
to
that
Often
so.
it costs
in
worth
after it is cured, and
when
sickness
for the
little
disease
When
and
and
out
the sick fowls
medicine
the
expect
Don't
pin
to
cure
it is
of
out
fowls
and
and
case
the
the
save
ten
cheaper
tenth
in the
disease
found
than
cases
There
thing
is
such
no
remedies
prescribed in
will
as
this book
a
proper
life of
a
whenever
cure
a
is
cure
the
"
The
disease
rapidly fatal
of all
thousands.
It is
all others
by
a
dreaded
put together.
and
drink,
"distinguishedscientists"
liver,and
us.
thus
This
the
chicken
as
poultry diseases,
more
germ,
whole
and
pointed.
disap-
sively
exten-
so
these
of
Some
nearly worthless.
are
all
fowls.
be
cures"
sun.
them
sick
The
poultry diseases.
have
until
proved
most
successful,
CHOLERA.
It
and
the
by
microscopic organism
the food
tell
known
of
care
possible.
CHICKEN
Cause.
that
neglected
probably
"sure
the
specificfor
if
dies
reme-
little
A
death
will
you
of
most
ones
die
off/'
"wear
proper
cure.
the
and
under
the
a
surely
do
ail
or
are
of
of the so-called
poultry
"cure-all"
hope
time"
if you
things,but
some
a
of
fast to any
every
for
good
all
if it will
see
administer
would
that
case;
every
cure
preparations are
with
of
to
and
cause,
thief
is the
cure
to
fowl
a
faith very
your
advertised
caused
fowl
in nine
poultry-keeper to
they get beyond
"Procrastination
Don't
than
sick
a
place; but
first
symptoms
the
least I have
at
not
really "down
are
for the
better
until tomorrow
wait
remove
before
to-day may
to-morrow.
and
don't
appears
search
once
to
they
cure
do
diseases),I
fowl.
valuable
at
the
will enable
to
be
in the
concerning
administered
be
the
not
opinion that
it would
used
were
poultry diseases, for
on
after
medicine
candid
fowls
"timely knowledge"
to
book,
chicks
or
and
it is my
hatchet
if the
book
a
(J
DISEASES.
discouraging work;
time
among
appears
owner
remedies
but
fowls
doctoring
more
writing
am
quarter (for the
a
pay
I
FIELD.
I AN.W
POULTRY
OF
is, generally speaking, rather
"
sick
to
you
that
"BY
YARD
CURE
fact
the
Notwithstanding
whicli
POULTRY
THE
IN
HEALTH
every
raisers
attacks
turkeys
or
which
possibly by
who
have
or
cholera
is taken
up
poison,
digestive apparatus
of
the
affects
the
well
as
inhalation;
studied
contagious and
most
its victims
year
poultry
germ
is the
cholera
West
into
the
is affected.
fowl's
that
subject
and
of
blood
Where
by
South
chickens.
as
anyway
the
counted
are
It is
system
the
is what
eases
contagious dis-
first,then
these
the
germs
10
health
filth in
by
flock
fowls
by strange
of
those
As
the
in the
tree-
tops
fowls
might
fowls
roost
beneath
around
had
in trees
tree
will
its
scraped
be
tainted
In
that
saying
or
I have
well
whose
land
fowls
seven
in
from
which
the
disease
the
I have
cholera
fowls
by
quart
and
of
the
The
Mixture
for
in
and
until after
charcoal
acts
or
it to mix
use
drink
two
three
their
the
purifiesthe
as
a
tonic; and
other
the
I know
mulated
accu-
neglected
J. Hill, in
to
his
warrant
otherwise."
or
just grew
agree
of
out
every
of
to
and
a
days
food
add
five
with.
disease
has
the
carbolic
acid
although
insisted
when
and
neighbors
give
of
or
acid
carbolic
from
aids
your
times
four
give the Douglass
and
her
their
Disease,"
disappeared
digestiveorgans
kept poultry
always
three
drops
Also
neighbors
of disinfectants, etc.,
Prevent
pint of food)
she
on
disease
attributed
she
immediate
your
the
near
but
year,
point.
kept
were
who
woman
cleanliness,use
How
of
premises
sanitary precautions
"
that
respects, unless
always escaped,
to
that
upon
fowls
one
prevailed
regard
flocks
the
generated, unless
cholera
among
from
heading
the
distance
prevails,right there
was
"authorities"
(tablespoonfulto
in every
water,
daily in
Douglass
the
under
prevailsamong
once
in
instructions
given
the
ground
some
evidence
disease
chicken
cholera
cholera
solely to
pulverized charcoal
week,
the
cholera.
hers
the
these
subject A.
fowls
the
besides, when
air for
around
cause
roosted
entirelyprevented by perfectcleanliness
chicken
dozens
its
of
germs
properly cared
the
disseased
by strange fowls, or
died
and
unless
sufficient
have
where
by
All
localitywhere
a
Follow
upon.
a
on
nothing, for
arrising from
stench
this
Wherever
almost
afflicted with
neighbors' fowls
immunity
into
by filth,
large and
proves
filthyfood;
the
"I
place
the
of
and
Upon
introduced
case
that
at
ran
occasionallythe
up
says:
is the
be
But
weather
wet
is local.
can
and
were
years
rated
gene-
premises or
is caused
disease
disagreeable odor
the
or
whether
a
first introduced
was
spaded
of disinfectants.
known
drained
the
that
water
unendurable.
been
disease
use
never
damp
there
But
"
and
cause
had
not, the
the free
and
the
matter
Prevention.
filth
are
brought
the
on
yet told
not
they
is not
regular roosting place, and
a
Cholera,"
exists; and
infectious
impure
with
is almost
Chicken
on
cause
have
I believe
found
fowls
cholera.
with
have
they
is
soon
ro'ostingplaces
me' in
but
disease
be
may
where
cases
to
access
droppings.
"Treatise
cited
attacked
were
have
the
the
when
original cause
have
poultry writers
some
that
field.
scientists
don't;
against the suppositionthat
argument
an
I
fanny
the
that
sure
am
by
neighbor.
near
a
and
form,
some
I
know,
don't
Possibly they
us.
yard"
poultry
the
place is something
first
in the
from
come
in
the
to
a
a
ture
Mix-
borhood.
neigh-
digestion;the
kills the cholera
poison.
HEALTH
IN
has
fowl
"The
plume itself; is
weakness.
of
symptoms
cholera
sometimes
and
water;
11
FIELD.
in fowls
described
thus
are
The
the
afterwards
the
hours
by
symptoms
several
after
health
who
contagious,and
one
but
have
we
in
even
a
to
sure
people
who
The
makes
"
then,
Most
have
a
of
and
in
few
a
same
general
and
the
house, shut it up
en
a
disease
claim
that
it is
are
them
do
on
cholera
remedies
that
in
way
several
the
in all
cure
or
found
has
recommended
are
There
no
doubt
there
is
is
good faith,but
have
We
cholera,
else
anybody
etc., that
sions.
occa-
subject.
to
upon
to
it is
accordingly.
act
for chicken
depended
they claim
that
safest
upon
cures"
that
Eminent
rightside.
upon
sure
in
so
and
the
utterlyworthless.
remedies
The
not.
contagious,
pills,"powders,
and
best
a
flock
else
bury
much
you
them
is
fowls
are
close
in the
as
to
used
deep
already
a
but
take
mis-
successfully
of
possible,put
of alcohol,set
half-pint
sick
with
done
fowls
at
and
once,
quantity of quick
a
in
when
cholera
the
way
of
congregating.
a
pound
of
it in the house
After
sulphur
where
it
burn
lime
;
cleaning up,
of houses, yards
disinfecting
and
habit
chicken
with
kill the
very
have
deal
to
way
thorough cleaning
as
the
believe
are
others.
among
how
matter
don't
we
with
be
will
that
subject.
'"
can
fowls
again,
"Treatise"
that
fowls
ol
next.
chicken
one
Sometimes
this
to make
so-called
"cholera
cheapest, quickest
lc,pour
fills with
crop
upon
it is
with
cure
cholera
for the
or
the
any
these
by
claim
than
the
divided
are
best
wrestled
cases,
chicken
cure
tried
placeswhere
sulphur
peculiarcolor
the
then
dead
be
that
always
more
of the
remains,"
no
like
close, and
eyes
tell the. story.
experience
assume
number
its appearance
their
to
it is
recommend
when
had
yet found
not
somewhere,
failed
is
bought
goodly
either.
one,
will
day
one
have
majority of
a
fast,the
commences;
equally eminent
We
"
have
tried
have
others
mistakes,
Treatment.
We
diarrhoea
have
cholera,
makes
the
contagious? Opinions
breeders
with
the
ensues,
different fowls, but
in
frequency always
their
days
Is Cholera
dealing
greenish discharge,or
and
heavy
somewhat
vary
apparently in good
poultry
is
breathing
falls from
and
staggers
not
color, generally turning pale,
Prostration
frothy.
does
dies."
discharge and
live
and
thin
the
wind,
fowl
is diarrhoea, with
There
and
appearance,
sometimes
lose their natural
wattles
and
drooping
often, and
thirsty,gapes
dark.
and
mucous
and
dejected,sleepy
a
very
Comb
but
as
FANNY
YARD"BY
J. Hill:
A.
If
usual
The
Symptoms.
POULTRY
THE
all
and
cleaning
in
you
an
can
old
the
iron
reach it
12
HEALTH
IN
THE
POULTRY
YARD--BY
from
the
door, hold
door
and
leave.
gas,
which
sick
fowls
have
left their
and
acid
fluid,and
disinfecting
will
daily and
To
The
freelyas long
charcoal,
and
disease
does
at
times
and
once,
alcohol
well
of
the desired
lose
but
few
the
with
the
be
under
fowls
; but
with
acid
Wherever
the
the
peras
cop-
disinfectant
lurking in
carbolic
treatment
effect,keep right on
sulphurous
Use
may
of
course
the
premises.
that
germs
recommended
this
off
thoroughly
the
them
alcohol, shut
included.
freely.
on
cholera
as
ten
will
you
remains
the
to
germs
lime
scatter
FIELD.
will send
ground
fowls, give
Mixture
out
the
wet
the cholera
as
Douglas
have
not
droppings
apparently
Nine
and
fire
set
livingthing, invisible
effects of the
the
of your
systems
hand,
one
burning sulphur
kill every
counteract
with
nose
your
FANNY
the
acid, pulverized
the
head
will
of
first
method
vention."
Pre-
"
the
out
stamp
if your
same
the
onslaught
and
it will
finallyconquer.
If instead
of
killing the
them, separate
remedies
mixed
with
given
twice
2.
Two
a
from
fowls
desire
you
the well
to
and
ones
hand
try your
try
of
some
the
toring
doc-
at
following
:
Calomel
i.
them
sick
and
blue
grains
two
in
mass
grain doses,
two
of gum
each
four
or
and
camphor
grains of
cayenne
blue
pepper
mass
be
may
day.
a
drachms
of calomel
mixed
with
quart of
one
meal
corn
; feed
twice
assafoetida
and
day.
3. Powdered
pure
one
carbolic
acid
equal parts
teaspoonfulto
4.
Powdered
of
capsicum
one
drachm,
Six
chalk, powdered
drops in
garlic one
tincture
a
6.
7.
solution
it.
Give
once
Equal parts
together.
With
Mix
of
aqua
fowls
to
a
for three
remedies
in
feed
twice
of rhubarb
camphor
ounce,
food
two
times
a
in the
proportion
of
day.
a
half
an
tincture
ounce,
tincture
drachms,
drachms
three
mix
;
of
opium
well.
Dose
:
day.
one-half
ammonia
water
ounce,
one
drink.
level
teaspoonfulin
as
much
water
as
will
days.
assafoetida,hypophosphate
in soft food
all these
of
three
one
day
in tne
extract
water,
of soda, half
a
Give
camphor,
gum
together and
peppermint
this to the
Give
Hyposulphate
dissolve
oil of
teaspoonful of
5. Fowler's
gallon; mix.
of
all
ounce,
tincture
drachms,
two
; mix
fowls.
10
every
charcoal,
ot
saffron
proportion of teaspoonful to
and
every
soda
ten
ground
fowls.
give DouglassMixture in the drink, and feed only
HEALTH
Such
diarrhoea.
POULTRY
food.
soft, easily digested
check
THE
IN
Don't
use
medicines
do
medicines
powerful astringent
any
more
13
FIELD.
FANNY
DY
YARD"
harm
than
roup
is the
to
good.
ROUP.
With
if
offensive,and,
the membranes
and
cold
human
a
and
in from
a
Cause.
warmed
by
Roup
made
undue
and
heats
the
fowls
least
exposure
day
after
day
recommended
among
to
fowls
your
a
milder
that
Concerning
fowls
give
prevent
the
in
disease
more
your
be
sure
preventive
easilycontrolled
American
get along amid
and filth are
is
Fowls
and
chief
the
has
the
better,
and
treated
not
though
appear,
confinement
a
in
artificially
to
that
chiefly
are
of Hartford, Conn.,
of
Most
roup.
inexperienced poultrythey
so
then
shovel
they
it in.
take
performance
same
is
cause
over-stimulated
been
prolificcause
a
prevalent
most
"egg-foods"
Guard
obvious.
cold
is
It
upon
repeated
the
Poultry
may
gain
disregard of all
Yard
with
says:
no
out
use
foothold
a
it will
if it should
it breaks
the
Mixture
Douglass
but
when
than
in total
and
disease
measures,
against all
neighbors' fowls
your
among
filthysurroundings
not
the
draught,
in
acid, charcoal
damp, filthyhouses,
subject the
5*ww that this disease
are
appears
To
of
roup."
carbolic
cholera.
spite of
is
The
air.
outer
flocks
Sturtevant,
regular sweat,
a
the
C.
will be
more
have
if the
of
cayenne
preventive measures
and
in
F.
the
It
system
little cayenne,
a
cold
the
or
subject Mr.
good;
fowls
type and
this
sometimes
the
and
kept
arc
this
tagious,
con-
being confined
after
wet
pepper
cayenne
feeding
The
"
disinfectants
fowls
of
the
mentioned,
causes
of
after
to
until
Prevention.
be
to cold
gives them
up,
the
the
exposure
is
and
roosting
and
little is
a
from
to cold
advise
if
think
keepers
cold
take
neglected
a
weeks.
cause,
a
to
Roup
symptoms
three
or
extends
soon
diseases.
attacked.
first
and
first affects
over," just as
attacked.
the
two
without
over-feeding of
the
poultry writers
lingeralong
comes
Upon
I think
"
:
after
days
It
it
neighborhood
a
sometimes
are
diseases.
serious
be
to
all
"
more
exposure
injudicioususe
of cayenne.
says
will
Fowls
houses,
the
liable
ten
to
never
cold.
houses,
damp
three
fowl
in
troublesome
most
neglected
"
foothold
a
poultry
when
the
into
runs
chickens
fowl
roupy
"
neglected
"
gets
once
fowls, but
generally die
sometimes
nostrils,but
poultry-keeper are
adult
among
it
of
fatal
finallyaffects
and
subjectoften
when
cholera,
most
the
lines
throat
careful
most
neglected, the
which
the head
in
of
single exception
the
among
sanitary laws.
"The
attacks
connected,
alwaysinseparably
fact
from
that
ron-i
Roiy ui
14
the
it appears
Before
clean
ones
FIELD.
the
shows
the
most
disease
alike
are
in
appears
but
exempt,
malignant
form
just those
of
in
a
after
offers it the most
filthysurrounding
most
thrives and
Roup
the
FANNY
BY
subject.
and
the
places having
home.
human
filthyplaces
the
neighborhood
YARD"
POULTRY
the
diptheriain
like
poultry is
THE
IN
HEALTH
genial
con-
damp, dirty
fowl-quarters."
Symptoms.
The
"
first
and
hoarseness, sneezing
of
stage
disease
the
fowl
the
offensive
very
the
weaker,
comb
nostrils
Treatment.
the well, and
cholera,
from
the
off your
the
whenever
roup
put
them
a
twice
big pinch
of the fowls
After
Such
the
fowls
Keep
hem
to
Bs
so
are
fowls
a
day
of
the
with
This
disease
reaches
worth
that you
both
the
of
the
for
the
by
troughs
and
spoonful
dessert-
a
cooked
chieflyon
and
the
and
charcoal
will
of treatment
give all
Also
acid.
and
charge
dis-
drinking
sick fowls
feed
acid,
sick from
the
another
to
the
Give
course
according
to
usually clear
the
throat,
and
of
commenced
have
potash.
it will
Open
the
do
most
to
the
cure
and
charcoal
the
pills,give
if ulcers
pillswill
These
directions.
afterwards
oil,and
of castor
dose
Besides
dry powder right where
form
bill and
good.
Most
recover.
the
third
stage
the
best
remedy
is the
hatchet.
fussing with.
are
the flock until you
"kind
doses
two
pulverized chlorate
will
is
week.
the
treated
not
for the
week.
Examine
eyes,
recommended
as
the feed
fowls.
affected
possible.
is
cure
Mixture.
Douglass
dust
a
carefullyclean
the
or
Pills"
Roup
fowl
one
stage, give the
second
the
"German
from
Mixture
a
or
the
around
the
fowl
swells, one
premises
charcoal, Douglass
premises in
in
roup
the
week
a
the
last stage
head
nounced,
proand
becomes
and
flock, separate
next
one
dailyfor
Mixture
the roup
For
of the
and
the
a
among
disinfect
night, and
at
fowls
apparently well
Douglass
use
oil
third
more
watery,
thickens
sometimes
and
appears
and
by
and
and
second
the
is
"
dies.
eyes,
used
daily doses
with
and
the
matter,
throat
is communicated
been
castor
the
roup
clean
to
disease
have
of
food
the
the nostrils
vessels that
in
fowl
the
proceed
the
as
eyes
In
throat
inflamed
yellow
thick
with
the
cold
common
a
nostrils.
the
rattlingin
In
progresses.
form
When
"
and
weakness,
and
clogged
and
black
turns
fever
are
ulcers
closed,
are
eyes
hoarseness
the
the disease
as
from
nostrils increases, grows
the
discharge from
are
slightdischarge
a
shows
of roup
symptoms
o' careful."
treatingfor
are
sure
they
roup
are
in
a
dry place,
and
do
not
return
entirelywell.
wfeea handling roupy
fowls, for if any
of the dis*
HEALTH
from
charge
in
comes
Is
the
contact
from
comes
along.
a
was
spellof damp
that
found
In
that
that
off
without
broke
had
the
a
the
disease
them
before
fowl that
ever
killed
so
they
had
the
The
over
him
to
of
those
fifty.
we
and
of roup
they
; but
we
lot for market.
of
stock
P.
died
have
that
Since
and
Cochins,
would
it and
and
October, when
care
; it don't
roup
it.
I concluded
hundred
one
die.
to
badly.
strong until the first
until
old
as
finallypulled
so
the whole
took
time
he
rate
I do
ail that
roup
through
symptoms
any
the
before
had
the
ever,
extra
fattened
we
them
of
twos
took
among
year
had
seemed
by
exhibiting
again
out
and
We
breeders,
that
as
or
strong
as
first chicken
any
well
as
rightand
ones
fiftyleft.
for
; at
nearly fortyout
by
seem
bill,I naturallyfussed
him
over
all
not
majority of
seemed
lost
we
fall rains
roup
from
bred
never
then
sell them
to
prayed
exactly,but
not
the
to
Cochins
ten-dollar
a
do
roup
hands,
inflammation.
perhaps
victims
easy
the
hatched
less than
cold
hadn't
we
I
chicks
The
the
fowl
cost
the
the
on
serious
;
15
FIELD.
scratch
or
cause
Partridge
first of March
the
had
dare
he
but
know
had
I doctored
but
to
know
have
of
yard
cut
a
apt
they fall
they dropped
we
November
it if
and
as
weather,
the
not
every
and
time
weathered
did
bad,
him.
that
a
died,
by
from
From
fowls
be
I don't
Well,
"
had
once
; don't
and
through
eye
?
hens
very
deal
good
breed
it will
the
healthy stock,
of the
Several
cock
with
FANNY
BY
"
gets into
eyes
from
I
YARD
nostrils and
chicks
chicks
POULTRY
THE
Roup Hereditary
that
know
IN
time
of
I have
pay.
LICE.
fowls
keeping
the
and
poultry and
and
sorts
chickens
Each
for his fowls
for
says:
"Well,
shut
up
glad
that
time."
and
a
:
have
his
will
no
that's
little
get
need
it
lousy
"
the
Hens
yard.
don't
good
farmer
for
to
his
we
fear lice."
neighbor's poultry keeping
so
article
who
have
the
fellows
are
kept cooped
"cooped
for the
take
their
our
fowls
it goes,
eyes, but
he
up
who
chances
each
cannot
up
in
one
that
as
about
the
most
see
the
sible
impos-
lice
their
lousy.
are
hens
farmers'
houses
I
am
article,
same
their
hens
all the
fight lice
and
all
subject and
keep
to
decent
lice of
it is
the
keep
can
see
of
with
on
reads
up"
farmers,
nine-tenths
will get
up
shut
hens
of
warnings
long
fowls
keep
And
a
our
that
who
and
advice
reads
that
think
to
seems
importance
the
about
fairlyoverrun
are
keep
advice
Hens
happens.
to
have
written
raiser
all the
that
keeps
that's
lousy, but
that
advice
good
country
poultry
The
man.
who
man
"Well,
just as
do,
be
farmers
we
The
says
to
and
lice,I firmly believe
from
individual
other
some
in
free
said
been
poultry-housesin
sizes.
meant
has
all that
Notwithstanding
and
how,
anyfowls
yards
cord
of wood
in
smallest
chip in
his
a
16
HEALTH
Let
own.
read
yourself or
day
chickens
and
and
behold
never
was
methods
of
And
clearlythat
lice
my
are
would
war
of
a
chicks,
and
Provent
in season,
never
lice.
them.
A
Another
feeding."
the
place
than
at
half
the
of
bottom
on
Fotvls.
perches
where
your
of useless
I
fowls
droopy
'
took
superior
chicken
a
good
chicks
and
lice
cate
ails indiof
many
the
ailingfowls
time, money,
save
drugs.
house-cleaning and whitewashing
a
wallow
can
If
dosing with
once
his
chicken
they would
lice
about
about
"
you
afraid that
was
I found
out
came
man
poultry keeper
troubles.
to the
coal oil
with
'
against
Attend
"
the
for
remedies
deal
good
I
letters I receive
the
extermination
a
when
but
The
look,"
a
astonished
more
in
half-grown
"took
I
suspected lice.
once
of
way
hunting
and
Lice
wet
some
I
"
poultry,etc.,
are
who
To
with
more
poultry raisers
fowls
he,
with
ailed
at his
it
were
neighbor.
look"
a
you
need
you
advice
to your
on
"take
what
out"
it
pass
to
If the
else.
one
to
me
"make
said
for
caring
wage
anxious
so
whether
out
when
and
them,
owns
find
properly cared
not
are
poultry-house,bragged (that'sthe right word)
hands.
my
some
covered
literally
were
wrong
his
through
to
on
that
who
or
better
good,
wanted
could
are
FIELD.
FANNY
BY
"
fowl-houses
they
it
be
t
raiser
"Why,"
saw.
something
on
they
!
and
seems
pass
wouldn'
if I
see
YARD
where
you
poultry
a
fowls
that
before
you
POULTRY
matter
advice
not
currency,
other
me
of
THE
that
lousy,no
piece
a
solid
tell you
me
for will get
IN
month
the
dust
in
and
and
round,
year
ashes
vide
pro-
their hearts'
to
content.
To
get
rid
of
the
house
and
staked
out
oil
the
heads,
under
on
Then
body.
the
floor of
carry
carry
whole
every
lime
of
the
sulphur
hot
soap-suds and
are
dry
powder
or
and
wings
into
If the
the
the
While
an
old
perches
old
reach
this
broom
with
the feathers
of the
have
not
of
and
clean
coal
Heroic
will
death
in the
measures
pour
new
kill any
and
going
perches
oil,and
off the
and
and
some
on
into
the
will
air-
some
with
that
lice
to
the
it,use
use
take
boiling
When
they
of
cracks
sprinklesnuff,tobacco,
of this kind
the
as
fumigate
inside,
boxes.
wash
white-
top and
on
dislike
nest
of the
part
dry earth,
sprinkle
alcohol, or
is
under
coal
rub
thoroughly
house
reach
the
and
with
and
the
up
the
on
poultry
a
and
fowls
be, scrape
fowls,
shut
the
house
should
the
work
nesting,and
powder.
of
fumes
If you
Catch
:
floor is covered
Next,
; the
possession of
taken
bodies
thing out
earth.
to reach.
alone.
insect
of
alcohol
and
the
Burn
fowls'
movable
fresh
failed
the
boxes.
have
they
the
on
inside.
out
and
wet
the
after
well-regulatedpoultry-house
burning sulphur
whitewash
claims
every
it somewhere
slaked
pests
the
carbolic
"
effectually
clean
HEALTH
lice of
out"
Lice
didn't
find
chicks
just before
they
chicks
throw
When
"rock"
and
necks, and
stand
examine
their
head, eating
darning
needle
mixture
of
pure
is
To
keep
take
and
the
the
these
the
else be
at
hand.
from
chicks
they
If you
of hen
the
acid
and
it is
insect
or
due
are
;
the
the
oil
or
with
to
a
alone,
a
table-
or
even
poultry
every
hand.
on
as
a
sitting,
commence
and
powder,
heads
their
of the acid
they
and,
erally,
genof
head
good plan for
oil
their
top
on
the
rub
use
when
hens,
ticks
and
drops
a
stretch
if bewitched
as
or
squat
parasites (a big pin
hand,
at
But
just touch
nest
three
or
your
chicks
the
lice
with)
backwards,
heads,
act
the
of acid and
mixture
and
large
lice
two
not
days before
if
as
for lice.
over
their
Remove
big
"
tumble
ground,
find
have
chicks, dust
on
act
the feathers
well into
back,
brain.
carbolic acid
If you
and
examine
better
forth, shake
will
you
catch
to
nothing
and
up
sulphur, carbolic powder,
few
the
and
into
handy
had
powder
touching
heads
way
lice
thoroughly with
you
beaks
bottle of the
a
prevent
a
back
oil.
the
fresh lard if
raiser to
themselves
oil and
sweet
spoonful of
heads
their
and
house
bed.
to
their
with
the
Open
arround
mope
you
insect
powder,
go
red mites.
little chicks
your
livinganyway,
carbolic
dust
17
FIELD.
fowls.
the
When
"
about
much
care
them,
down
Chicks.
on
FANNY
BY
"
obstinate
the
even
"
admitting
before
air well
"breed"
any
VaAD
POULTRY
THE
IN
repeat
the
formance
per-
final
precaution,when
with
the
and
oil
acid
mixture.
Never
the
prevent
does
; the
chicks
not
from
eggs
chicks
and
evil results
good,
side.
and
sulphur, lard
sulphur
is
apt
and
follow, but
quite safe, it
be
Coal
oil may
sitting hens,
any
kind
and
sulphur, and
is better
and
used
be
on
get iu the
for
it is liable
to
oil may
be
when
there
are
to
on
let the
coal
used
oil alone.
of it,but
come
half-grown
if used
that
remedies
other
if it
even
sulphur generally kill
chicks
on
from
away
injure them,
and
of grease
sulphur
clear
and
eyes
coal
harm
no
used
to
all mixtures
together. Clear
; it may
of
grease
blindness,
cause
lice and
no
or
hatching.
coal oil and
Keep
young
oil
coal
use
Just so
it is better
to
sparingly,
phur
clear sul-
with
keep
equally
are
on
the
safe
chickens.
GAPES
in chicks
the
the
chick
is stillone
are
caused
worms
dies
are
of
of the
by
so
the
unsolved
of
that
numerous
suffocation.
"
presence
Where
small
in
worms
they completely
these
mysteries ;"
but
worms
I have
come
the
fill
times
windpipe. Somethe windpipe, and
from
noticed
that
in the
first
the gapes
place
occur
18
HEALTH
IN
chicks
frequently among
most
allowed
and
sloppy food,
Prevention.
runs,
Douglass
three
times
kept
box
or
The
few
putting a
the
under
method
chicks
cured
and
sulphur, with
with
Another
cheese
so
little,
that
and
mixed
with
gapes
should
moved
to
When
the
shape
of
pint
a
fresh
of
burning
and
coops
in
where
the
the
feed
chicks
are
describes
sufficiently
carbolic
fumes
until
almost
they
in
dead.
We
Fix
a
fumigate by
the
lower
part
nearly suffocated,
are
death."
to
acid.
half, and
upper
shovel, placed
them
lime.
top
Put
the
spread
;
will sift down
in hand
taken
of
ground,
the
small
buried
old
the
lime
We
have
have
also
chicks
in
tried
this
fumigated
box
a
this, and
over
the
among
soon
and
then
don't
chicks, but
or
little
a
tie
shake
overdo
a
a
the
pill,or
of
and
over
dose
a
coughing
well
(two
Chicks
cure.
a
plenty
the
give
and
gasping
five
turpentine (four or
effect
with
deep,
the
as
generally
chicks
camphor
as
places spaded
among
appear
gum,
will
food),
or
gapes
the
the
burned
be
disease
in the
hot
in the
"choke
pillof camphor
small
sour,
them.
patientsare
a
red
is air-slaked
fine lime
the
on
success.
over
smother
If the
noticed,
good
cloth
a
that seemed
good remedy
piece of
matter
quite
you
Food"
premises
the
fumes
chicks
on
the chicks
Keep
the
of
name
the
acid
fed
the
about
"Imperial Egg
unless
is the
shut
can
damp, filthycoops,
strict cleanliness
and
The
remedy
FIELD.,
worms.
gape
"
of the
closelylest
watch
but
best
drops
birds.
drink
with
in
FANNY
water.
water,
prevent gapes
that you
so
the
BY
kept
impure
pure
Treatment.
and
symptoms.
coop
will
already infested
are
Syjnptoms
the
in
YARD"
are
to
food,
Mixture
week,
a
that
access
Good
"
POULTRY
THE
quick-lime,
lime
ones
a
drops
die
the
of
coops
scattered
freely.
preventive
in
the
drops apiece) of
three
or
that
are
coal oil.
WEAKNESS.
LEG
Cause
and
legs only,
the health
large breeds,
body
out
Symptoms.
of
and
usuallybegins
when
sometimes
until
to
be
not
attacked
The
first
than
strength of
the
lack
the
the
of
the
bone-forming
chickens
later, and
in
are
some
kind
The
legs.
four
in
earlier.
cases
confined
the
weight
tendency
the
and
first affects the
at
wholly
increases
material
between
that
is almost
by rapid growth, which
is caused
by
leg weakness,
being good,
otherwise
proportion to
is increased
True
"
food.
to
The
five months
Cockerels
are
to
the
of
the
this ailment
trouble
old, but
more
liable
pullets.
symptom
of
leg
weakness
is
a
shaking
or
trembling
of the
legs
30
HEALTH
make
to
ones
close
a
stock
and
that
by
they
walk
cannot
be
meal, and
burnt
in litter.
But
killed at
all
were
cured
are
form
will work
To
the
but
if the
cure
by
on
the
fat and
so
of
heavy
weakness
can
by burying
the
the
table
their
is
If
injured
the
though
as
grain
market.
or
general health
eating
bone
legs
not
of
for
until
effect the
whole
flock.
feet attend
to
the
coal
time
oil.
to
it at
Dip
it has
is
measures
well
coop
it alone.
if
but
stiffened, no
forms
other
from
tered
lit-
Nature
neglected
will
treatment
of
in
occurs
leg weakness
or
it sometimes
Probably
It
adult
fowls,
low
fol-
it may
from
comes
and
the
best
LEGS.
fowls
cure
; the
an
is
disease
There
legs
beneath
the
of
scales will loosen
by
contagious, and
into
any
several
are
fowls'
interval
caused
are
notice
If you
once.
the
penetrate
with
applications,
a
a
apoplexy, or by spinal disease,
understand.
The
allyeffect
itself in
first lamed,
when
rheumatism.
or
scales.
than
joint,and
Preventive
beyond feeding let
entirelydifferent
is
gout
hock
condition.
attack
an
result.
injured fowl by
or
the
injury to
hatchet.
under
oil has
These
for
usually the
cared
be
rough, bunchy, scalylegs on
soon
better
get
form
exercise
fowls
perch, and
any
fowl
Legs
do
we
is the
and
it is
jointis sprained,the sprainneglected,
SCALY
legs
to
from
; the
weakened,
of
attack
severe
which
will
fowls
This
wholesome
comes
put the
its natural
jointto
brought
burrows
healthy
Sometimes
causes.
; the
entirelyand
just as
roosts
once
without
is
The
sick
food, giving the Douglass mixture,
stiff joint is
a
at
cure,
the
remedy
high
joint is much
the
causes
be
leg weakness
from
Paralysis of
a
will
sexual
fowls
out
the
from
by breeding
shaking.
kill such
legs give
jointor
with straw,
and
the
of
weak
a
obvious.
restore
is to
confine
not
right.
by jumping
until the
without
forcingthe
way
exercise, they
either
and
and
bones,
from
the
do
exercise.
little exercise
too
But
FlELD.v
material.
comes
by cutting down
before
Another
caused
Fowl
FANNY
chicks
in
bone-making
stand
or
the better
once
of
Old
take
to
weakness
high feeding and
too
sometimes
by lack
in
Weakness
BY
"
impossible.
room
leg
of
YAHD
not
need
Prevent
"
feeding plenty
Leg
caused
they
;
coop
Prevention.
POULTRY
difficult,if
more
recovery
THE
IN
one
or
and
fall
and
two
minute
one
unnatural
insect
hold
kill the
roughness
them
don't
but
there
the
on
none
until
mischief-makers.
days between,
off,but
which
scaly-leggedhen
good remedies,
the oil and
scales
a
will
attempt
to
gener
hasten
HEALTH
the
by rubbing
process
with
day
IN
melted
lard
POULTRY
THE
oil until
sweet
they
smooth
are
21
FIELD.
FANNY
BY
"
off; just rub
scraping them
or
or
YARD
the
legs carefullyevery
and
well
again.
CHILLS
caused
are
To
small
the
undue
by
and
prevent
run
"heft"
of the
heavy shower,
still able
to
the
with
coop
with
up
the
and
be
until
they begin
a
revived
soon
be
seasoned
and
and
they
in
keep
and
kept
in
they
and
until
are
to
to
keep
place
until
stand
to
holding them
there
Partiallydry
quitedry
mother
a
them
unable
are
through.
the
to
drive
warm
in
that
enough
a
dried
out
Those
energy
place
return
get caught
have
and
coop
has
sun
right if you
warmed
warm
the
up.
water,
were
a
them
chilled that
so
quite warm
if
pepper,
to
seem
after
chicks
all
out
house
Chicks
as
until
hunt
limits of the
the
to
fledged
come
not
the
into
act
with
do
to
them
soft cloth
will
that
taken
and
If half
hen
livelyagain.
kick
to
confined
possibleand
as
Those
by dipping
old
an
feed,
warm
hen.
should
hen
may
with
as
wet.
pleasant days
on
grass.
after the mother
run
the
out
and
chicks
also
off the
dew
turn
thoroughly dry
them
and
rainy days,
on
the
keep
aire,
cold
to
exposure
; then
give
men.
CRAMP.
When
they try
with
are
to
young
chicks
walk,
and
caused
cramp
obvious.
the
rubbing
free range
have
squat down
affected
at
legs daily with
time, they
night in damp
often
can
be
cured
Preventive
coops.
water,
to
or
when
stagger
troubled
probably
are
by removing
oil,strong mustard
coal
round,
moping
go
half the
about
confinement
by
Those
that
measures
dry place,and
a
any
good
lating
stimu-
dry
houses.
liniment.
also
Cramp
In
such
sand
by
force them
that
should
to
cover
that
early chicks
among
it is caused
cases
and
the
occurs
lack
of exercise.
exercise
the
are
Rub
by raking
small
in
kept
the
warm,
legs
grain
already
as
cracked
or
mended
recom-
into
corn
floor.
COUGH.
When
croup,
lodged
or
fowls
tubercular
in the
throat
the fowl
deposit on
or
it if
remove
and
cough continually they
seems
air passages.
possible;
all
the
are
lungs ;
or
Examine
if not, kill the
right except
the
sufferingfrom
else there
the
fowl.
is
throat
cold, bronchitis,
foreignsubstance
some
if you
and
If you
cough, fumigate
a
find
it with
find any
nothing
sulphur
struction
ob-
wrong
and
wait
22
the
until you
does
yield to
not
probably
is
the
sure
are
shut
and
BY
"
ones
fore-runner
a
continues
about
"
deposits,and
FIELD.
FANNY
afflicted
the
is not
tubercular
by
YARD
better
cough
treatment
caused
POULTRY
But
of events
progress
fowls
THE
IN
HEALTH
of roup.
When
for any
so"
the
from
away
hatchet
oth"^
the
cough
of
length
is the
the
best
it
time
remedy.
CANKER.
canker
For
burnt
rest
Give
alum.
of
in mouth
spots
Douglass
flock, for canker
the
throat
or
Mixture
is
powdered
use
daily,and
the
keep
contagious,and
chlorate
fowls
sometimes
of
potash,
from
away
precedes
or
the
outbreak
an
of roup.
CONSTIPATION.
chicks
Early
aid in
It
half
generallycomes
pulverized charcoal
recommended
that
twice
and
troubled
gravel or
food
of
induce
old.
cise.
exer-
Give
gravel.
Also
them
scratch
chicks, kept
Later
sand
of
lack
and
with
coarse
weeks
two
plenty
and
week,
a
of
about
are
food
for cramp.
treatment
to
give
of doors,
out
a
as
are
this disease.
with
confined
are
yards
and
of
kind
some
properly supplied
not
Give
constipation.
food
green
small
to
suffer from
supply
afterwards
food
lack
concentrated
chicks
the
sometimes
are
food,
much
oil,supply green
sometimes
food
green
and
fowls
when
on
in the
in the
troubled
Old
of green
lack
by
indoors
wholly
digestingfood properly, too
teaspoonful castor
seldom
raised
are
It is caused
constipation.
to
that
teaspoonfulof
a
with
oil
castor
daily.
DIARRHOEA
f
chicks
,*nong young
water,
sometimes
filthycoops,
much
too
green
generally caused
is
by
The
Feed
cooked
cold
the
of
sloppy, uncooked
sour,
to
exposure
mention
food.
by
and
wet,
and
sometimes
the
indicates
causes
food, impure
by
preventive
measures.
Treatment.
milk
a
to
"
drink,
and
twice
of
tablespoonfuleach
cayenne
This
the
with
each
disease
"doctor"
appears.
"
small
of
if the
But
discharges of
pillmade
food.
a
the
chalk
Also
chicks
and
clayey color, and
is
of
meal,
the
cayenne,
milk, give scalded
taken
chick
bad
before
"bakes
chalk
the
as
you
up
of
drink.
as
soon
begin
to
behind""
give twice
and
mix
"pinch"
a
in hand
afterwards
powdered
and
freelyin
Mixture
pretty
of rhubarb, and
tincture
equal parts
fine bone
patientsare
diarrhoea
in
signs of improvement,
show
give Douglass
if the
generally cure
of
give a half-teaspoonful
a
day, until
powdered
pint of
will
treatment
a
scalded
bread
rice,wheat
a
rhubarb,
day
wet
HEALTH
and
Mixture
bone
much
too
meal
teaspoonful
a
pillsrecommended
feed
and
does
old
fowls
of
dose
food
of
until
the
give
Douglass
Correct
and
often
and
better
of
two
of
course
the
ture,
Mixment
treat-
hatchet, for, in
the
use
in
errors
Douglass
If this
well.
are
the
afterwards
meal
bone
week,
a
fowls
in old
Give
It is caused
yards.
to
feeding.
rhubarb,
they
patientwithin
spite of doctoring, diarrhoea
in
day.
a
confined
are
errors
extract
cooked
the
Also
shape.
into
that
other
by
or
form
%d
FIELD.
FANNY
BY
"
recommended.
twice
benefit
not
before
YARD
to
for chicks
well
on
enough
as
food,
green
diet, give
POULTRY
attacks
often
Diarrhoea
by
THE
spiritsof camphor
with
up
IN
chronic.
becomes
DYSENTERY
is
bad
a
form
diarrhoea,
of
usually follows
in old
for diarrhoea
; and
fowls
evacuations
the
diarrhoea.
neglected
a
and
the
Give
twice
five
drops
blood.
with
oil and
castor
day give
a
streaked
are
It
pillsas
directed
of laudanum.
Cure
doubtful.
BOUND.
CROP
When
to
a
be, there
Pour
the
contents
a
tablespoonfulof
twelve
hours.
across
and
of
any
crop
the
to
stomach,
Take
way."
in the
cut
forward
and
' '
feed
firsttwo
to
two
make
in the
outer
rather
too
days
after
sure
skin.
much
soft
the
it
fowl
up
without
if the
crop
time,
carefullyas
lice. The
are
both
sew
food
far
possibledown
a
in
in the
cuts
Shut
for
take
crop
week
have
and
patientaway
or
so.
Give
half
a
not
care
to
been
moved
re-
the
passages
the
"right
or
three
more
fowl
will
"lean
two
together the
up
the
future
or
partly
and
have
contents
ten
or
inch
the
as
for
empty
After
the
performance
food
an
until
and
down
not
and
ought
stomach.
the
this
the cut
can
cut
for symmetry.
from
other
drink
no
of
fowls
for
the
operation.
generally caused
sulphur gets
food
the
in the
If you
cooked
Make
be
small, sharp blade,
a
EYES
SORE
in chicks
the
it
as
the crop
head
shut
contents.
that
fowl's
After
vessels.
stitches
three
or
lightlyon
pass
the
longer.
that
blood
into
passing
minutes
few
a
Use
larger
hold
big
as
carefullyknead
then
and
twice
about
from
food
; then
the
crop.
and
the
throat
oil and
remove
oil^yourfingerand
the
the
expirationof
part of the
upper
swollen
prevents
castor
the
At
it open
cut
empty,
in the
the
at
and
somewhat
softened
work
that
down
water
are
and
is hard
crop
something
warm
bill open
cut
is
some
give
fowl's
into
by
their
the
eyes,
use
of
makes
sulphur, or sulphur
them
sore,
and
and
often
grease,
causes
for
blind-
"
24
It will be
ness.
get
IN
HEALTH
; in
sore
easier
fact the
POULTRY
THE
the
avoid
to
YARD
than
cause
BY
"
to
FANNY
FIELD.
the
cure
that I shall suggest for
only remedy
after
eyes
they
once
sore-eyed chicken
a
is
the hatchet.
BREAK
old hens,
Sometimes
fat that
they
sometimes
can
again
return
while
as
bother
to
be killed and
especiallyof
dreadful
"
are
be
like
baggy
by
overcome
fowl
the
soon
as
with
such
DOWN.
is
the
"
look,
and
amount
put them
that
in fowls
in the
is
to
the
of egg
way
OF
have
been
of
misery
the
only symptoms
if to
hardly
is over-fatness
to
apt
worth
they
can
cause
accidents
oil
expulsionof
food.
of
The
is
of treatment
course
distressed
a
this
to
never
way
that will
one
IN
OVIDUCT.
broken
the
oil into
castor
or
of the
in
egg
an
hen
to
oviduct
the
hour
or
rid herself
; in
but
so,
of the
some
the
cases
majority
fatal.
prove
lack
affected
Hens
lay.
EGGS
SOFT-SHELLED
by
is feverish, has
hen
desperate efforts
the
are
this will
the
OVIDUCT
The
the wisest
BROKEN
Carefullyinject sweet
caused
it is
culty
diffi-
quickest.
wreck.
are
This
but
It is
with
forced, by highly stimulating foods,
production.
and
afterwards,
much
EGGS
of such
only trouble
walk.
awhile,
regular rations.
placed on
continuallystraining as
out
The
for
loaded
so
eaten.
usuallyoccurs
utmost
become
hardly
can
semi-starvation
INFLAMMATION
their
and
behind,
for since
hens,
larger breeds,
material
for
of
the
mention
plainly the
indicates
cause
ting
stimula-
by over-feedingwfth
egg-shells,and
preventives and
remedies.
EGG-BOUND.
Symptoms.
Hen
"
comes
off and
walks
If you
can
the
not
visible
other
castor
see
give
fowls.
about
coming
the
hen
If relief
oil into the
remains
a
be
the
on
with
egg
a
take
nest
distressed
a
feather
tablespoonfulof
not
a
obtained
oviduct, taking care
not
look,
to
or
but
oil the
and
castor
in six
time
long
oil and
the
egg;
to the
nest.
trying to expel
soon
returns
rent
; but
shut
her
if the
away
from
eight hours, injectsweet
break
the egg.
be
egg
the
oil
or
Wealth
in
poultry
the
yard"
BUMBLE
is
simply
from
lump
a
high perch
a
and
open
and
which
foot
the
have
"lumps"
the
out
press
wash
the
to
on
place
added
the
few
is
hot, and
the
fowl
the
fowl
by
of
else
or
usuallycaused
Sometimes
suds,
soap
drops
perches low,
and
floor.
carbolic
a
foot
hard
Keep
matter.
daily with
been
the
bare
25
field.
FOOT
of
bottom
it will feel soft and
; if so,
matter
the
on
fanny
by
will walk
itself on
carbolic
as
if it hurt.
castile soap
acid.
To
Cut
it
floor,
suds,
to
these
prevent
for the fowls.
ladder
a
contains
lump
straw-littered
a
with
or
provide
this
by jumping
RHEUMATISM.
The
to
mustard
to
rub
with
coal
the
food
and
a
in
week
a
of
Douglass
until
fowl
the
hereditary,and
fowls
mustard
the
as
and
in the
drink.
improve
to
is cured.
they
will
that
have
not
; then
be
Give
annoyed
it should
not
be
by
Soak
fowls
on
other
wipe dry
and
two
times
well-littered
a
fowls.
in
treatment
three
or
and
pepper
ol
course
liniment
used
inclinati
disease
dis-
runs.
ginger
this
the
affected
Keep
The
cramp.
; then
bear
can
a
(teaspoonfulof ground
Follow
use
legs, and
cold, swampy
water
fowl
the
with
as
stimulatingliniment.
Mixture
patient
drawn
are
houses
in
hot
as
any
begins
dry place where
minutes
water),
with
toes
damp
to
few
a
oil,or
the
daily until
for
quart
a
the
confinement
legs
lameness, stiffness of
are
Sometimes
by
feet and
rheumatism
move.
is caused
the
of
symptoms
floor
is
Rheumatism
breeders.
as
LAMENESS
that
is caused
Put
by
sprain
a
the fowl
by
or
itself
an
and
accident
let
of
do
nature
kind
any
the
needs
no
medical
ment.
treat-
rest.
CHICKEN-POX
manifests
is
itself in the
food and
this
of
sause
carbolic
Douglass
treatment,
of
if attended
contagious,but
parts daily with
shape
soap
Mixture
and
the
chicken-pox
in time
to
sores
is
not
sores
run
the
drink.
the
on
fatal.
often
suds, give pulverized
freelyin
I don't
?
small, scabby
charcoal
If the
together, apply
fowl
head
and
is not
face.
the
Wash
hatchet.
the
and
affected
sulphur
in the
benefited
The
It
by
original
know.
CONSUMPTION.
A
sometimes
neglected cold
fowls
that
sometimes
to
all outward
runs
into
consumption
appearance
have
instead
been
cured
of
of
roup;
roup
and
will
26
HEALTH
afterwards
soon
cough
and
killed
the
favor
IN
off in
"go
emaciation.
the
fowl
of
development
YARD
FANNY
BY
"
gallopin'consumption."
a
There
for the
better
POULTRY
THE
is
and
cure,
her
and
the
no
the
FIELD.
chief symptoms
The
sooner
fowl is
consumptive
a
are
Dark, damp, filthypoultry houses
owner.
disease.
BRONCHITIS
from
comes
cold
and
a
caused
by
a
and
is
; the
cold,
common
the nostrils.
of castor
dose
dry place,give a
oil,and
also indicate
symptoms
liver is affected
the
generally with
"
highly
of sufficient exercise.
grain of
calomel
if
range
other
every
odor,
the
Yes
and
; but
discharge
in
fowl
the
a
pills.
roup
for
other
by
Cut
week, feed
a
appetite,but
the
onions
ing
over-feed-
by
diet, and
in
errors
down
these
as
ascertain whether
It is caused
is dead.
or
"
loss of
impossible to
obvious.
are
day
?
Put
bad
a
throat,
the German
use
and
fowl
food
seasoned
Preventives
the
of roup
offensive.
not
laziness
are
until after the
not
or
those
offensive
an
diseases,it is almost
other
between
DISEASE.
of liver disease
symptoms
emits
afterwards
LIVER
The
Like
by bronchitis, is
or
disease
half-way
cough, rattlingin
are
discharge
roupy
of
sort
a
symptoms
slightdischarge from
difference
a
The
consumption.
sometimes
with
neglected cold,
a
lack
rations, give
freely,and
one
give
free
when
it
possible.
APOPLEXY
is not
does
a
disease
common
usuallytakes
it
feeding in
hot
and
if crazy
as
Fowls
that
are
to
you
properly led,
cure,
see
dessert
one
gone
plunge
cooked
before
it head
troubled
generally dead
castor
food,
you
first into
with
oil,and
and
notice
keep
die
right
and
before
as
If the bird
hard
a
comes
a
stream
to
"
matter
of
and
But
if
dose
(a
wrong.
give a big
the
runs
weather, and
twenty-four hours
under
"
is
anything
When
and
are
symptoms.
any
in hot
if drunk,
week.
a
symptoms
whirls
Apoplexy
notice
fast for
its head
fowl
cool water
you
quiet for
usual
off without
this disease.
let her
her
The
the
by high
It is caused
flock.
heat.
staggering about
it hold
cold water.
of the
Sometimes
plenty of shade,
fine fat fowls
spoonful) of
lightlyon
near
of your
"
intense
fowls
sometimes
not
is
best
to
exposure
range,
are
fowl
for the
biggest and
staggering walk.
; and
free
have
a
"
and
weather,
drooping wings
about
the
and
occasionallyappears,
it
poultry,but
among
; then
fowl
cold
seems
feed
is pretty
water,
or
relieved*
Xb
HEALTH
never
breed
from
fowls
breed
from
fowls
whose
POULTRY
THE
IN
that
YARD
not
are
strong
and
have
been
constitutions
chicks
haphazard in-breeding,the
of
for the trouble
pay
FANNY
BY
"
healthy
FIELD.
weakened
will
be
respect. If you
in every
by disease,
sicklylot
a
will
that
judicious,
in-
by
or
never
hatching.
INJURIES.
The
best
for serious
remedy
injuries
"
broken
legs or wings
is the hatchet.
"
WORMS.
Fowls
worms.
When
camphor
gum
two
size of
the
three
or
notice
you
for the
oil and
digestiveorgans
whose
next
times
order
of
out
' '
troubled
often
are
evacuations, give each
the
twelve
pill;
common
weeks
two
in
worms
a
' '
are
give sulphur
later
hours
fowl
of castor
in the
pulverizedcharcoal
and
piece of
a
dose
give a
with
food
week.
a
MOULTING
disease
is not
a
they
are
fed
well
them
"tone
it is
;
and
well
little Imperial
a
desire
to
When
lots of trouble.
wishes,
roost
to
don't
and
the
but
coop,
week
them
at
most,
to
a
either,but
take
will
them
it often
notion
a
that
be
can
the
on
to
the
on
be
for
other
the
their
In
of their
cured
thoroughly
week.
poultry-keeper
hens
Have
or
sit.
by
diet
them
gone
for
a
four
to
desire
have
rooster
ways.
three
to your
"breaking
livelyyoung
a
nest.
a
of
methods
of
error
used
a
ailing
family contrary
a
after
nest
the
causes
rear
give them
coop,
roomy
meditate
to
nothing
they
find
you
them
leave
hens
and
times
three
or
right if
HENS.
of the old-fashioned, barbarous
first time
remove
two
all
along
weak
seem
any
Food
SITTING
disease
a
your
try any
the
but
up,"
sit isn't
If
for.
Egg
will get
fowls
the
cared
BREAKING
The
and
process,
otherwise
with
up"
natural
a
pany,
com-
perch
in
days, or
a
FEATHER-EATING
is
a
vice
The
only
wire
passed through
does
for
a
a
is
cure"
"sure
or
a
bit
around
passed through
the
the
criminal
from
shutting the
not
interfere
with
eating.
quarter.
bit in her
As
mouth
prevent fowls from
soon
at
as
once,
you
bill close
bits
These
find
else she
The
comb.
a
are
feather
will
teach
acquiring this habit, keep
cured
often
it is not
engendered by idleness, and
the
aud
mouth
bit is
enough
the
them
in
medicine.
place by
just large enough
to
in your
habit
the
grasp
patented, and
eater
held
or
to
busy.
can
to
vent
pre-
feathers,
be
flock, kill
the whole
bought
her
or
flock.
a
but
two
put
To
HEALTH
IN
THE
POULTRY
YARD
BY
"
FANNY
29
FIELD.
EGG-EATING
is another
fresh
vice, and
There
meat.
cold
weather
peck
cracked
learn
soon
lack
simply
exercise
ot
whole
the
at
; the
fowls
until
eater
she
the worst
it
and
around
;
will
and
cayenne
is that
so
sight as
soon
to
the
of
these
eggs,
from
that
that
eggs
will
of the
so
is
an
egg-
that
is not
four
they
and
do
porcelain
a
mixture
of
of
this
that
hen
disgustthe
in
up
cannot
philosophy
"
the
porcelainnest
egg-shellswith
The
them
shut
is to
or
catch
you
"
will
she
egg.
learning
laid, and
will
eggs
in
get broken,
And
finding that
nests.
is
cause
nothing
hen
of confinement
fill
hens
lime, and
the
eggs
until
three
but
is to
in the
them
leave
In
flock.
method
month
a
way
prepared
the
"real"
they
limits
and
it will take
leave
provide nest
as
meat,
break
to
; but
and
hens
that
raw
Still another
another
them,
the nests
try
cure.
a
keep
to
will
off". Another
and
Egg-shells
with
notion.
watch
is to
; the
of the
that
whole
the
open
eat.
the
nests,
eggs.
think
I
henceforth
to
to
quarters
off the
her
trick
the
heads
and
lime
mustard
break
To
their
cut
mouthful
one
never
they
teach
close
;
get rid of egg-eaters
to
then
break
can
you
soon
finallygive up
affect
to
eggs
will
plenty of
feed
coop,
they
"
quickest way
guiltyones,
eggs
unless
of it ; she
The
a
dies
good
cases
in the
is done
crack
lime
their
eat
for the sake
most
scratching about
to
and
are
them
in
craving for
a
learn
eggs
in
shut
are
the mischief
in, and
that
by
freeze
they
But
eggs.
she
bill
hens
they devour
to
her
which
learn
particularto do, they get
pokes
caused
until
nest
and
always
by
thus
fowls
to
peck
to
and
eggs,
it is
ways
left in the
are
carelesslythrown
are
several
are
eggs
the
at
believe
I don't
dark
be
and
house
keep
a
that
so
eat,
the
fowls
your
small
to
throw
never
they
when
busy
roll
will
eggs
shells
egg-
often, make
freeze, gather the eggs
won't
inside, or
all
above
good
are
eggs
of
out
are
fined
con-
yard.
"CHIGGERS."
friends
Our
penetrate beneath
five
hurting
the
acid
The
the
acid
to
a
rear
young
measures
are
their
families
tablespoonfulof
will kill the
chiggers,
and
there.
sweet
the
how
To
oil and
oil will
little wretches
the
add
cure:
rub
on
prevent
the
four
afflicted
acid
the
or
from
fowl.
DISEASES
Young
know
chiggers abouud,
and
skin
of carbolic
drops
places.
live where
who
turkeys are
liable
and
to
liable
attacks
give the
same
to
of
OF
TURKEYS.
chills,cramps,
roup
treatment
and
and
cholera.
recommended
leg weakness,
Use
the
same
for chickens.
and
old
and
preventive
30
HEALTH
Before
take
they
the
to
ducklings
fully
are
streams
as
ducklings
paddle
about
chicks.
Old
HANDY
It
hand,
is
not
but
he
ought
oil, pulverized
keep
to
chlorate
of
a
supply
potash,
of
liable
are
in
the
to
cold
ducks
wet
chills
grass.
almost
are
if
allowed
to
chilled
Treat
healthy.
always
HAVE.
poultry-keeper
the
for
necessary
TO
FIELD.
FANNY
DUCKS.
feathered
or
BY
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OF
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A
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mechanic's
A
wife
13
clears
broilers
annually on
raising of chicks
fowls
Cost of keeping adult
.
raising chicks
of
to age of
Cleanliness
Capons
Capons
raise
How
How
many
to
many
chicks
shell
9
of
remedy for lice
chicks
of
out
Eighty-one
Effectual
in the
Food
for
kept
fowls
24
keep
to
20
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house
14
32
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37
47
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41
Preserving eggs for winter
Spring management.
Shade
during the hot summer
one-
chicks
in confinement
Fowls
15
wife
.
incubator
poultry
a
Plant
28
with
keep
in
36
17
business.
eggs
8
to
27
37
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hundred
7
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to start
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Keeping poultry on a village lot 21
27
Lime, gravel and charcoal.
13
Missguided
people
On
bo cleared
one
acre
can
$100
to $150 by keeping
poultry.. 11
4
Plan
of poultry yards
35
of young
turkeys
required to start the
Capital
flock.
Incubators
38
value
a
.
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How
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7
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PAGE.
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wives, farmers'
22
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11
and
daughters
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of food
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17
26
43
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Fanny
raised
840
chickens
How
How
on
How
from
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each
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manage
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What
the
treated
twelve
to
distinct
The
tribe.
fowls, become
in the
over
your
need
garden, and
they
;
yet
and
at the
thus
when
is
great benefit
a
farmer
usually hatch
there
to
is
in
and
few
a
ten
this
years
to
will
to
roam
scratching
as
pick
the
up
without
useful
themselves
far
so
will
they
allowed
be
can
harm
no
time
half
to
of
in
both
to
use
solves
capons
breeder
longer
weigh from
what
bugs
doing
do
the
fancy
with
half
and
dispose
and
a
surplus
farmer
and
and
be
not
of
flock
to
males.
breeder
or
If capons
five hundred
from
view.
females, there
the
should
raise
of
females,
the
of
them.
unlimited, why
lem,
prob-
fore,
stock, and, there-
twenty pounds,
to.this matter
another
pecuniary point
a
males
or
fifteen to
demand
the
to
hundred, and receive for them
be
can
juicy and
the
farmer
one
or
two
thousand
one
annually.
can
be
certainlymuch
farmers
three
old,will weigh
There
is a growing
maturity.
will do
and
trouble
no
his attention
much
to
months
again,they
about
hesitate
tender, and
as
about
are
fullymatured,
in getting a paying price for
difficulty
this change or outlet for the males, no
They
treated
are
males
three
at
same
make
to the
dollars
flock,
industry.
Then
both
made
turn
the
weighs, when
ordinary fowls will.
changing the cockerels into
Chicks
With
farm
the
that
This
a
of
pen.
worms,
damage
is
when
country for capons,
same
is concerned
while
of the
of
why capons are being sought after is,their flesh is
ered
juicy and tender than any other bird of the feathfierce and pugilistic
After
caponizing, these once
docile and do not oiler to fight,although fiftyare
more
kept
that
caponized
branch
reason
much
birds
male
large size.
a
twenty pounds
in this
demand
and
if
the
are
animals
male
cock
A
pounds,
fifteen
a
to
grow
They
the
as
old.
months
from
?
operation is performed
This
so
same
them
make
be
Capons
are
per
raised
better
pound
of the west
cents
per
as
as
cheap, if
that while
bushel
Then
they
for their
cheaper
corn
than
pork,
nearly three
will
eating,and
pork.
not
bring
again, this
get only
can
on
the
suggests
from
western
ten
are
times
to
the
ty-five
to twen-
prairies,or
from
away
realize
thus
their
at
At
doors.
fifteen cents
say
cents
sees
from
and
pork,
when
pound
ten
pounds
of
per
pound
in
less
worth
fed
to the
cents
pork
to
But
the
will be
it would
way
make
their
up
catch
the
but
do
the
not
to
can
anticipatethe
that
will
will take
bring
and
future
see
land
when
the
a
all
of
meat,
of
value
corn
the
ceipts
re-
there
are
get
to
raising
the
prices,
emphatically,
incline
should
of them
some
the
like
would
wide-awake
them,
at
get
poultry.
to
go
they
some
is fired
one
it to
say
call
is you
reduce
if
they
not
or
But
result
We
?
pounds
ten
get
capon.
and
twenty years
farmers
the
where
of
wants
up
them
bushel
capon
farmers
us
even
who
enterprisingones,
and
who
raising,and
per
ness.
busi-
people
they
and
are
this article is intended.
expect that
young
of
all
alike, and
whether
idea
cents
cents
one
by feeding
the business
minds
of
the
be overstocked
at least
an
six
to
more
and
same,
corn
take
for whom
ones
We
to
on
the
your
in every
However,
who
pounds
all think
not
half
a
cents, while
fifteen
cents
to make
corn
The
six
profitin
of
Chicago.
it does
markets
it into
six
brings
of choice
cent,
Suppose
:
no
do
People
that
the
won't
there
no.
say
He
time
same
per
for
it ?
Chicago
nearly 40
product
price
will
some
capons,
to
each
freight on
with
$1.20.
are
than
Chicago
just double
so
it costs
pay
pounds
only
same,
bushel
one
in
pound
per
the
at
forty-two
not
and
one
in
is worth
making
bushel
one
cost
least six
very
it
is worth
and
is the
capons
again
the
the
Chicago
in
bushel
per
it will
do
to
and
would
pork
Chicago
feeding
it takes
as
freight,while
at
Then
the
Dakota,
this
arrives
cents
it is worth
farmer
in
only
Now,
in
prices
and
capons,
in Dakota
corn
Chicago
m
is the
corn
pork
pork,
the
twenty
for
of
at these
dressed.
will make
corn
present writing
What
the
growing
fiftyto seventy-five
bushel, and
per
for his
per
pound,
the
Dakota.
outlet
no
from
bushel, and
per
ship
to
least
at
it to the
feed
markets, they can
cue
and
profit,and
once
secure
independence.
take
a
be
enter
fancy
made,
for
into
them
a
a
lines,
these
generation, are
coming
at
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is to
money
the
will
to
poultry
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pleasant
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XVIII"
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Cramp
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Constipation
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23
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the
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Poultry
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22
Dysentery
23
Diseases
of
Diseases
of Ducks
Turkeys
29
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Eggs Broken
Egg Eating
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24
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24
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29
24
Bites
Feather
27
Eating
Gapes
Handy
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30
Disease
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28
Lice
15
Inflammation
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24
Lameness
Liver
27
25
Disease
26
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Leg Weakness
Leg Weakness
Moulting
Obscure
18
in Old
20
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28
of
Diseases
Paralysis of
Roup
Fowls
the
Chicks
27
,
Legs
20
...........
13
Rheumatism
25
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Scaly Legs
Sore Eyes
20
White
27
23
Comb
28
Worms
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8
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twelve
brought
bring
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like
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first-class
in
up
them.
very
hours
to
necessary
hatch
to
creatures,
as
will
Breeders,
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chicks
young
to
help
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pick
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faster
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smart,
are
themselves.
commence
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chicks
young
your
up
are
if
grow
they
with
run
the hen.
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Young
them
thrive
to
to
plenty
require
and
and
eat
saw.
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young
The
King
of
drink
and
chicks
they
is
just
what
them
the
are
order
for
temperature
and
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things
you
sure
death
to
is almost
want
you
this
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in
ninety degrees
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chilled
get
once
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health.
in
keep
of
temperature
a
ever
them.
their Health, Comfort
for
and
growth.
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stove
Water
in
does
learn
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to
near
will
you
to
surely
as
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chicks
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of
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soon
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that
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surface
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gather
sleep
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fact
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On
the
top
heated
by
price
of
this
at
the
a
they
well
as
Price
"
and
chicks
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on
have
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bottom
the
huddle;
cannot
that
no
the
of
heat
desire
to
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and
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same
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lamp
that
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time
large
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of
pane
see
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the
on
margin
chick
hot
market,
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for
which
glass
every
contains
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any
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very
can
you
ufacturer.
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water
the
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tank,
is
and
beneath.
the
chicks
warm
they
will
come
four
priced
to leave
as
too
lose
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low
lowest
will
retreat
near
it.
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a
hundred.
in
the
seek
can
from
have
the
brought
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they
temperature
simply
and
if
not
chicks
in
this
tank,
up
ask
most
can
hens
do
as
this.
for
100
"
200
in
Send
number
are
so
Brooder
arranged
enough
Brooder
evenly
is the
is
it.
kerosene
so
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desire.
warm
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opening
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the
distributed
will lay flat down
but
of
King
in
without
and
child.
a
light,while
of
that
arranged
so
great
so
groups,
like
The
of
parlors
our
draw
to
in this Brooder
Tank
only
Chick
"
your
in
orders
connection
Brooder
$7.00
"
10.00
early
with
as
we
our
shall
large
be
able
business
to
supply
in
Poultry
a
limited
Supplies
all kinds.
Address,
R
B. MITCHELL,
Poultry Supplies,
CHICAGO,
ILL-
is the
Cholera
Enemy
worst
the
contend
CHOLERA
OUR
Has
gained
have
public
over
of it.
worthy
reputation
a
it all
sent
constantly
and
B.
saving
prepaid,
express
In
lt" 45c.
10-Ib
lb
per
packages,
In
50c.
prepaid,
Sir:
Bear
the
cholera.
arrived.
After
forty-two
be without
at
has
1888
we
packages,
5-lb
prepaid
lt" 40c.
per
Mitchell,
B.
and
years
During
and
country,
we
are
letters
in the
speaking
of its curative
qualities,
their
flocks
the
from
fatal
of this
disease.
terms
packages,
per
five
the
over
ravages
In, 2-lb
Dak.
Watbktown,
Your
fowl
cholera
I had
forty- seven
I have
the first dose
rate
the
it next
to
receiving;
highest
Prices."
has
MEDICINE
the
before
been
now
Poultryman
with.
of six
medicine
does
got it for" it stopjust what
ped
we
down
hens
with
the cholera
when
the medicine
not
lost a chicken
from
I had
lost
the cholera.
I got your
I shall not
day, until
medicine.
per
eight
or
Yours
year.
truly
C. A. BARTLETT.
Ills.
Tuscola,
B.
Mitchell,
B.
Sir:
Bear
how
I like
cholera
at hand
card
asking
your
Cure very
I like
Cholera
Preventive
and
your
without
it.
Respeotfully
yours,
to be
expect
of the
"Woodbuey,
B.
M.
EVANS.
in
me
keeping
I believe
a
Iowa.
Mitchell,
Bear
Preventive
Sir:
and
I received
from
a card
of you.
I bought
Cure
you
I
asking
say
can
how
that
Respectfully
be.
I liked
the
it is what
Poultry
you
PLUM.
Pleasant,
Mt.
Iowa.
Mitchell,
B.
Bear
Cholera
P. S "I
quite
were
Cholera
recommend
yours,
JAMES
Enclosed
Sir:
Please
Cure.
the package
first
sick; after
used
$1.00
find
send
at once,
sent
me
which
for
please send
if possible.
Yours,
and
find
improved
dose
it
just the
at once;
me
thing.
shall
two-
one
etc
O.
soon
package.
pound
B.
age
pack-
,
F. GRIFFITH.
Several
of my
hens
send
for ten-pound
O. F. G.
Towanda,
B.
able
valu-
PERRY.
Beacon
B.
ported
im-
my
it is
B.
B.
not
Mitchell,
B.
it to
can
District
Attorney,
Gloucester
Co., N. J.
Your
Bear
Sir:
Poultry Powder
proved a good thing to
trim.
Bantams
in healthy
and Pekin
Silver
Sebright
Yours
truly,
remedy.
B.
do
and
much,
NEWTON
Office
I
medicine.
Your
readily reply that
Kas.
Mitchell,
Cure.
Cholera
dollar's
worth
of your
My fowls
Bear
Sir:
Please send
me
one
of your
cine,
mediand
I sent
got a dollar's worth
it again.
They had it last fall.
another
died
after the
Not
to me.
one
of many
dollar's value
which
have
been
From
I
it for anything.
without
experience
do
first dose
I would
not
my
given
and
will some
of my
I will
testimony,
so
it is a most
effectual
give my
cure.
say
Chicken
it.
Cholera
extensively here, and I
used
who
have
prevails very
neignbors
have
"m
sure
you
could
sell many
dollar's
worth
if it
were
Yours
only
known.
Respectfully,
M.
Address,
R.
8
MITCHELL,
Publisher
E.
STEARNS.
CHICAGO.
POCKET SAVINGS BANK
Just
the
to
dime
justslipit
your
bank
boy
and
savers
little
nicest
Made
dimes.
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not
Don't
Or
Save
be
but
heart
the
dime
Choose
Some
up
be
life's
in
fair
you
get
it out
$5.00.
or
of
one
these
morning,
rainy day;
last
forever,
always
and
then
something
some
with
save
rich.
the
not
can
the
Lay
for
one,
forget
Sunshine
When
not
can
you
to
saw
pocket.
and
beginners
Young
ever
just fiftydimes,
have
help
PREPAID.
you
your
bank,
in your
girl should
can
thing
in
carry
is full.
you
POSTAGE
25c.
PRICE
as
gay.
the
yon
blooming spot
lot, and
"
plant
dollar,
roam
of
a
"
beauty,
home."
ADDRESS
E.
PUBLISHER,
B.
MITCHELL,
CHICAGO.
your
get
a
until
Every
dime
IMPROVED
INCUBATOR,
THERMOMETER
WITH
EVERYTHING
AND
READY
FOR
$20.00
Eggs Capacity
100
'
'
200
USE.
$2600
$3800
300
for
Full Directions
and
settingup
each
operating
accompany
niachint
What
partiessay
Dear
Sir:"
who
using
are
trial hatch
Our
this machine,
this
;tweg^NEFDear
My
Sir:
wife
180
was
vear
It. A. BARNES
has
got
fiist
108 tine chicks
l"m'Ind:
90
machine
is
success,
a
my
per cent.
Sir: -I
with
(uj-u-s
Dear
I could
not
bank
just hatched
114
Sir:
draft
on
of 117
hatch
was
120
fertile
W..T.MCCALLUM.
brought out .100
Improved Incubator
We
your
permit,
out
machine.
chicks
100
Send
more
money
certificates but
by
out
of
Post
our
office,or
103
limited
space
express
will
order,
Chicagco.
Address.
R. B.
fertile
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Colunibia.
British
add
best
from
chicks
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rs, with
Parkville
have
your
\\Wk.N.
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WAAnaN. E. WOODS.
Pecksburg, Ind
Dear
of
out
H.A.WILSON.
Sir: "Your
Dear
chicks
Mitchell,
Poultry Supplies,
CHICAGO
or