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Show ! HEALTH CF POULTRY FLOCK House, Roosting and Nesting Places Must Be Kept Clean and Free From All Disease Germs. There can be no success with poultry poul-try unless the fowls are healthy, and the main assurance of health in the fowls is healthy surroundings and conditions. con-ditions. In the first place, the house, th3 roosting and nesting place, and particularly the setting place, must be kept clean and free from the elements of disease. Many peop'e now have separate places in which to make the nests for the setting hens and move them from the laying nests to the setting set-ting nests before putting under them the eggs for hatching. This is a good plan and it is not difficult when worked out with reasonable skill and judgment. judg-ment. In moving a hen it is necessary to confine her at her new nest for a short time, a day or two perhaps, but if she is broody she will soon accept her new nest, and the eggs may safely be given her. Be sure that setting nests are new and clean. The material 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 measure. 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. 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 causo. Early every spring such runs should be treated with a liberal dressing of lirne Let it be sown broadcast, or otl. ..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. |