Show n 11 11 n n The Cash Valve Value Of Cleanliness 1 Editors Editor's note ThIs note This Is la another story in a series of 52 lit stories on poultry raising raisins written b by the well known lOWn national poultry authority Dr L. L D. D LeGear V. V S. S of ot St. St Louis The Phe entire series will appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear in this paper Our readers are urged to read them carefully and clip cUp them out for Cor future reference j Little Jonnie in his bath with oars ears full of soap and soul full Cull of I rebellion undoubtedly has no use whatever for tho the doctrine that cleanliness is next to Godliness To I him it Is just a pain in tho the neck neck neck- a devilish invention of ups grown-ups to keep a boy from his rightful teul occupation occupation occupation oc oc- oc- oc of play Left Len to himself he will most certainly have as little F as possible to do with that particular particular particular ular kind of Godliness Most ups grown-ups recognize the desirability desirability desirability de de- of personal cleanliness and of common sense sanitation in their homes and places of business It is more comfortable to be he clean after acter one has reached maturity and too to suffer the expensive expensive ex expensive pensive Ills JUs that result from unsanitary unsanItary tary surroundings When I it comes to their poultry f however that Is quite a different story in all too many instances The Tho same game man who would recoil in n horros honos from a filth encrusted dish placed before him on his table allows his fowls Cowls to eat and drink from tram utensils that are no less an offense to decency because they Broin Bro are In the poultry yard Instead of the dining room lie Jo will howl his I head off If it Junior tracks a little j 1 mud onto the living room rug but buthe buthe buthe he will ll allow droppings decomposed ed food material and other offensive often offen sive litter Utter to accumulate In his hia m on hen lien houses until they smell to high h heaven and his chicken yard jard looks like that lower corner corner of or orthe the south forty after the last batch of city picnickers had hadd done t their worst to it Then he wonders wh why his fowls aro are such poor l lay layers lay lay- y ers ere look so droopy and andl dispirited and so readily take on all the ills that chicken flesh is heir to The discoveries of or Dr George in Panama and of Dr who recently died a martyr to science In Africa ba have vo shown how liow certain kinds of mosquitos transmit tho the germs of yellow ollow fever This suggests suggests sug sug- that such parasites as lice Uce fleas mites ticks licks an and bedbugs so BO often infect chickens m may ay also be carriers of disease There is reaBon reason reason rea rea- son Bon for believing beHoving that such is the I case but whether the they do or not not I such parasites cause a heavy drainon drain drainon on the vitality of ot the fowls Poultry I I houses should be he made so they so-they they can be scrubbed out occasionally nally and I they should 11 bo be regularly sprayed I with coal tar dip and disinfectant No animal or vegetable matter matterI 1 I should be allowed to remain exposed exposed exposed expos expos- ed ed in ya yard d or house until it begins ins to decay All such mate material riot should bo be removed and burned or deeply i buried Be De particularly careful so to dispose of fowls lIs or animals that hat have avo died from ono cause causo or 01 another Drinking Drinking- vessels anid feeding equipment should be bo care care- fully All fountains troughs and hoppers happel's should be so constructed that the fowls cannot get in them thorn with their feet teet or roost on them Fresh water should be le given a at least once a day All feeding reading and amI watering equipment should be thoroughly scrubbed out scalded I at frequent Intervals Droppings are perhaps the most dangerous of or all possible sources of or I infection They are almost Invariably invarIably invariably ably breeding grounds for tor disease disease germs germs and also frequently harbor Intestinal worms These hese may l 1 l' l j 1 picked up by fowls not already af- af i 1 1 I I U thus us spreading the tho evil Furthermore bore nothing could b be VOl so far for fowls than to to be compel compel- ed cd to roost just above a IHU filthy droppings drop drop- plugs pings boar board Tae Tle odors and gasses arising from rom droppings are e extremely ex ex- unhealthy Continued hrc breathing or of air so contaminated ti wo-aKens wo o-alenS o the lungs lungs lunge thus making easy the progress of any disease may be bo contro contracted ted later on t I Both Boll roosts ands and droppings board should be frequently cleaned au an and disi disinfected as well as the whole hole hous house e. e It is also advisable to cover cover cover cov cov- er the droppings board with wire I netting so o the fowls cannot get into in into in- in to the droppings with their feet t Buds as that show Signs of disease disease dis dis- dis l' l ease easo should always be bo put to themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and treated d until it is safe sofe to return them to the flock If any consider blo number of ot them show i Signs of the same trouble they J i should bo be taken out of ot the tho flock and aud a whole sale saJe clean cean up should ba bo made clean out and disinfect all hous houses s and equipment clean up yards ards and arid in every overy way attempt to 1 rem remove vo all possible sources of oC in in- I lIens that are aro healthy robust strong free freo from parasites and disI disease disease dis dis- dis- dis I I ease case aro are better layers layers better breeders breed breed- ers and are worth more on the marI market market mar mar- ket than those that are neglected and compelled to get along as best they can fait on Maintaining 1 sanitary conditions may mean meon w work rl but it itis itis is neither difficult nor as trying as fighting disease and it is infinitely more profitable 1 |