Show CAUSING DISEASE unhealthy which make poultry keeping unprofitable diseases like roup and cankered mouth result from filth lice and bad grain diet these diseases are met with everywhere throughout the whole country roup Is a cold developed into a chronic state and affects chicks worse from 16 weeks to six months old the best preventive Is a system ot exercise with houses free from draft and dampness and free from lice combined with a va biety of food plenty of charcoal put into the ground food and also in a place where they will have access to it will prevent or dry roup as it Is sometimes called it will also prevent bankers cankers from form ing in the ot the mouth charcoal absorbs the poisons that cause cheesy matter to form in the mouth in winter more than 75 per cent of the diseases among poultry are caused by the presence of lice lack of exercise and overfeeding over feeding of the poultry and also a lack of shelter dampness and drafts are common causes of diseases I 1 find says a writ er in farmers review that all kinds of poultry are subjected to these dis eases whether it be the pure breeds or mongrels mon grels there is no kind of feeding that will prevent diseases the feeding should be plentiful enough so that all the fowls may go to robet with a full crop of grass and grain the best balanced rations have proved most effective and it lice are kept away this will be a strong factor in keeping the poultry healthy |