Show HEALTH OF POULTRY FLOCK house roosting boosting Ro and nesting places must be kept clean and free from all disease germa germs there can bo be no success with poul try unless the fowls are healthy and the main ace maurance urance of health in the fowls Is healthy surroundings and con editions in lit the first place the house tha ro and nesting place and 1 the setting place must be kept clean and free from the elements of disease many people now have in which to make the nests nt ats tor for the getting hens and move them from the laying nests to the set ting nests before putting under them the faggs for hatching this Is a good plan and it Is not difficult when ben worked out with reasonable skill and judg ment in moving a hen it Is necessary to confine her at her new nest tor for a short time a day or two perhaps but if she Is broody she will soon accept her new nest and the tle eggs may safely be given her be sure that setting nests are new and clean the mate rial used in making them should never have been used in a nest before then a little lime sifted in the material makes it a nest safe from all the poultry pests the laying nests too should be kept fresh and clean and a little lime occasionally sifted in them Is an important precautionary meas ure each time the house Is cleaned it should have a good treatment of lime sprinkled over the floor until it shows distinctly and dashed or sifted into all the wall and corner crevices and on the roosts boosts this Is scarcely equal to whitewashing but it Is the work of only a few minutes and it is a great help the young chicks raised on the farm are expected to have much the same runs year after year these runs are liable to become germ and disease infested and then there is complaint of bad luck with the young chicks gapes appears among them and many die without apparent cause early every spring such runs should be treated with a liberal dressing of limp let it be sown broadcast or at wise evenly spread all over the ground until its whiteness can be easily seen lime Is not costly and when it Is air slaked it does not take much to accomplish this purpose it Is a practical guaranty against many of the young chick troubles |