Show DEATH AMONG YOUNG CHICKS connecticut station Fic recommend commends the uie use of skim milk as a bert beat pre pro vertice of disease Dle ae m br N M 1 pt N poultry specialist fann fam st SL paul aln one of 0 the main causes ot of death among chacks Is white diarrhea this is very prevalent and investigations have shown conclusively that thy the orl 9 inal source la is otten often from parent stock many chicks have the disease when batched hatched and others contract it from them through feed and forage forego in in ili fectea litter or grounds this trans mission from chick toe to chick Is common during the first three or four days and nd this Is the period of great dens danger er especially specially among chick chicks of low vital ity the symptom symptoms are R whitish discharge from the tent vent which result results in I 1 pasting up behind the chick chicks become listless and sleepy lose appetite the feather feathers become ruffled breathing labored and they constantly peep or chirp they may die suddenly or gradually waste away this disease Is being most carefully investigated by the agricultural experiment station at storrs conn and the third report of their investigations has been published this report becom mends the feeding of sour milk as an the best thing to use for a preventive of 0 this disease it advocates feeding sour milk from the very first ant aad keeping it before the chicks constantly the acidity of the milk act acts as a 6 germ icide moreover the milk Is an ani out mal product which chicles chicks require in to some form and it Is a great factor in the growth and vigor of the young flock of course the commercial chick feed feeds now so common are fed and pure water ater supplied but in addition sour milk Is kept before the chicks constantly the vessels being cleaned and ref refilled filed dally daily during the first few weeks farmer farmers and poultry raisers should feed sour skim milk constantly at least after chicks are a few days old as a preventive of this dread disease and to stimulate their growth it almo 1 increases egg product production loa in the laying flock numerous experiments have demonstrated that skim milk and curds or cottage cheese are among the arost stimulating feeds for poultry of all kinds except very young C chicks hickl many claim that sweet milk is much eater safer until the chicks are at least a week or ten tea days old there ie is a constant supply ou nearly every farm and it should be universally used for the farm flock EASILY CLEANED HEN HOUSE roof la Is arranged on hinge hinges and may oe do lifted whenever desired freeh fresh air afford afforded for a small flock ot of full grown fowl fowls or on a smaller aicale tor for a hen and end her brood the poultry coop shown herewith has ban some distinct adlair tage the sides and the ends may be made of any material desired and of any a dimensions says coop wi with th movable roof the orange judd tudd farmer tb th ej should be surmounted wound the top by a straight sin sti on which the root frame la in to slide back and ard forth supported on oil roller rollers it 1 large the root is hinged at the apex so as al to le to lifted and held up by suo stop port ports shown at a these I 1 supports when tl not 01 in 1 use hang u dow doan A on the of the coop ben amata ath the th root t L one end nd ls 13 wits netting end and at the other ther cloth sucu as burlap thus Th any or TOnt lation can be secured at will brooder chicks to hong it brooder chicks are to be given to hens put each ben to herself her solf and sit her it chicks at night to alot turn of brooder chicka I 1 n one pan with several only a lot of frightened chicks some will be taken by one ben one or two by another the rest by none the consequence aa U that the neglected aleju one soon die and the th hen with u many not being able to hoye to too lot they die too b ig give poultry a variety briw by giving poultry a do food prepared pre lared in variety of their appetites ways we great extend avoid to a the el kligers of any kind ot food a Overeat laa poultry not ru fully aw ROOMY P ilary like healthy LIT not fir f ir about their reale bu rellah all kids ot ordinary |