Disease In Poultry

Iranny Field, who lias made a suc j of poultry, lias also written a book on i the subject, in which she says: If vuur fowls are so "weaklylike" ; that you must bo ahvays bracing -hem ! iip witfa chicken powders, pastes, pilK elizira and tonics of all sorts, better let them die or kill them at once and have done with it. Long experience in the care of poultry has convinced me that proper food, drink and care, together with strict attention to the sanitary condition of the house and surroundings, will almost if not quite bauish disease froia the poultry yard. Here aro souie of tlie preventivo mensures suggested: Guard agaist dampness. 'J. the place selected for a poultry house be not well drained naturally, drain it by artificial methods and ahvays jilace the ooops for Httle chicks on the driest spot of ground at your command. In all new póïütry houses, and especially those that are built late in the fall, there is a good deal of moisture which comes f rom ihe ground, nd which, when the house is closed, as it must be in cold weather, shows itself in i'rost or dampness on the ceiling and walls. Dry, ventílate this natural nioistnre out of the house before the fowls are put in. See that your poultry huuses and chicken coops are well ventilated without exposing the occupants to the danger of sleeping in drafts of air. Keep the poultry house, the yards, the chicken coops and everything aboui. thein clean. Every morning sprinkle some absorben t, dry earth, land piaster or coal ashes (never wood ashes) ovei the dsóppings under thp roost; and ;i of ten as once a week remove the drop pinga from the house. Every spring and f all, and once at least in midsummer (oftener if some contagious poultry disease is prevalent in your inimediate neighborhood), whitewash the inside of the poultry house thoroughly. When uontagióïis poultry disease is present among your fiock or among those of near neighbora, use some disinfectant daily aboat the hfiuses, yards and all placea much frequented by tlie fowls until all danger is past. One of the best disinfectants is prepared by adding two ounces of carbolic acid to three quarts of water. Another good disinfectant i.made by dissolving three pounds of copperas in five gallons of water, and then adding half a pint of crude carbolic acid. Sprinkle the disinfectant about by means oí a cbxnmon watering pot with a fine nozzle. When the fowls are confined to yards a portion of tlïe yard shonld be spaded or plowed vip every week du ring warm weather. Chicken coops shonld be cleaned and whitewashed whenever a new faniily of cliicks is moved in, and they uiust be i moved and the droppings scraped away j often enough to prevent foul odors. ' Af ter each eleansing spri nklè the ground [ with a handful of air slacked lime and then throw oñ a sfaovelful of sand, gravel or dry eartli before the coop is moved back. i Keep fowls and cbicks free froin lice. Avoid crowding. Peëd only fresh. wholesome food, and keep pure water where the fowls eau have it at all times. Keep a slippjy of gravel, charcoal and crushed oyster shells or linie in some shape where they can help themselves. kever breed f rom miliealthy fowls. Have a building or room apart f rom the general quarters where sick fowls eau be confined and treated away from the rest ofthe floek. When strange fowls are brought upon the preñases, no matter if they come from the yards of the ■best broeders," keep them apart from the rest of the flock until yon are snre tlicy are free from disease.