| Show Is Your Poultry Yard your ground is exclaimed the chicken doctor who was called to diagnose a disease that was killing a flock by ground she this yard is It is alive with disease germs a foot You'll have to lime plow it down and grow a before you'll have healthy hens fit to eat and breed I she That's People think of the excrement constantly dropping in poultry A hen drops eighty pounds a Then think what some are where hundreds of fowls where rots the accumulation of years Such yards are so full of fertilizer that pumpkins couldn't grow a squash in but there would be such a tremendous tangle of vines and leaves cover-ing the space and shooting over the fence that the big green tangle would remind you how twisted people are on science who allow yards to get into such condition and how green they must be to expect good returns from poultry imprisoned in such Such yards are mostly and what a sight and stench when rain fills them with where the fowls wade and scratch and Some even throw feed on such a surface and expect hen sweet meat and Such yards are a case for the board of They are a menace to the family and breed a pestilence for But it's easy to make sick ground Change the flock to other ground or raise no fowls for a Lime the yard plow it deep and sow to wheat Let it come up in sweet blossoming O ye what a Town and |
