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Show h AT I TM Y umrnv J. DEATH FLOATS IN AIR OF HATCHERY Floor of Room Is Common Source of Dust and Dirt. Death floats in the air for the newly new-ly hatched baby chick, but the hatchery hatch-ery manager can tuke precautions which will reduce the probability of disease germs, carried on minute, floating dust particles, from infecting baby chirks which emerge from their shells, free of the disease germs. "The floor of the hatchery room Is the most common source of dust and dirt. The floor should be kept clean," says a bulletin on "Sanitation In the Hatchery" just published by the agricultural agri-cultural extension service of the Ohio State university. "Less dust will be stirred up if the floor Is flushed or ; scrubbed with water instead of being swept with a broom. When the use j of water Is Impossible, sweeping compounds com-pounds should be used. If possible the floor should be kept wet down. This prevents dust and by Increasing the humidity of the air is an aid in hatch- ! ing larger and better chicks. I "The practice of dropping or throwing throw-ing egg shells, unhatched eggs, or dead chicks on the floor is bad. This refuse ref-use should be carefully handled and j removed from the Incubator at once. "The hatchery room Is not greatly unlike a hospital. Clean wails, clean floors, clean equipment and clean attendants at-tendants are essential." The new bulletin is written by Prof. E. L. Dakan, head of the poultry husbandry department of the university, univer-sity, and Dr. Fred Speer of the bacteriology bac-teriology department, who has been doing research work on the disinfection disinfec-tion of incubators, under a poultry industrial research fellowship established estab-lished at the university by commercial commer-cial Interests. |