Show POLLUTION CAUSE OF DISEASE SE too many fowls kept kep t on one enclosure for year without change of ground should be divided nearly every poultry ralser raiser keeps too many fowls in a limited area ot of ground it la Is a common circumstance to hear bear ot of some person having good success with poultry for a few years when all at once things begin to go wron gand the person loses faith in the industry chickens die by the dozens and those that remain alive fall fail to yield a profit the cause ot of all the trouble seems to be hidden yet it Is not far to find right in the ground of the poultry yard fifty or a hundred or more chicks or any other domestic animals kept in one enclosure for a year without change will pollute their surroundings this la Is true even with healthy fowls and where disease breaks out it la is much more true the gollu pollution tion extends as a rule not only to the grounds but to the poultry house as well I 1 it Is often impossible or difficult to purity purify the house the result Is that poison or disease become deep seated in the surroundings and stringent methods must be resorted to in order to eradicate them it la Is easy or nt at least possible to clean and purify almost any poultry house bouse and make it fit for continued habitation of fowls without having to chango change them to other quarters it Is not so easy with yards and grounds the poison la Is so BO deeply absorbed by them that it requires months to remove it the immediate grounds around a poultry house receive the most pollution the grounds further away receive less legs for this reason the grounds immediately adjacent to the poultry house should be divided by fence into at least two parts and each part cultivated in some crop every alternate year with all poultry kept from it during the season of cultivation this will allow much of disease and other pests to dlo die out for w want ant of anything to feed on and much of pollution and poison will be consumed through physical and chemical action in the foil eoll it if the ground Is plowed deeply roine bome of them will be burled buried so BO deeply that they will never come to light cultivation aeration and the growth of pants panta in the soil all have a general tendency to soil eoll purification from the tha point of view of animal sanitation poultry grounds on an the average farm where there Is an abundance of tree free range can be kept helit comparatively fresh by always feeding the fowls away from the poultry house they will feed and range in other places ff f no ino inducements are placed at or ne near ar the house ahouee then they will use uee th the 0 house only for ro end and laying purposes and the natural dally daily pollution will be carried far away |