Show cleanliness PAYS IN POULTRY BUSINESS m 7 31 i P i 1 1 4 1 1 14 1 7 s 1 s 1 Z chicke hacken house home should not be placed place d in an unprotected part of the yard he chickens must have mo re shelter in the winter a menace to the chicken busl busine nesi s lice suck your profits from the laying lag hens bens and the growing cock carels and cholera wipes out a whaler years grouts lu in a week or two yet none of these enemies are quite so BO dangerous as the tha musty frowsy drowsy ill si dirty henhouse because dirt 1 Is the beginning and end of disease A clean henhouse to is an insurance against fowl disorders says an indiana writer id farm progress many of ofus us bort of grow accustomed to dirt it grows on us and the first thing we know it 11 has become so familiar so much a part of at the everyday surroundings roun dings that we simply pass pasa it by wo we simply become unable to perceive dirt when it to Is all around us we put oft off the cleaning up process a little too long and the first thing we know we have millions of lice or an epidemic of cholera in the flock where the chicken house Is to bo be cleaned once a week in winter it will require three times asmuth attention in hot weather the piles or droppings will decompose in the heat and the interior of the building will be well nigh unbearable to the birds they are forced to breathe and live in an atmosphere created by their own filth and unless the building Is very open the evidences of such a condition can soon be seen in the appearance of the flock cleanliness paya not only in freedom from disease but in increased production it will take time to keep yard free from filth but it to Is something that must be promptly attended to in sum mer especially I 1 have seen some henhouse floors that were a mass mas s of manure feathers sand band ashes chaff and dirt dirl the hens were alive with lico lice and were dying oft nightly from one disease or an other they were being kept at a loss and that loss must havo grown heavier the longer they were kept tho the owner complained that thero there was nothing in the chicken business no dirty houses are the cause of many hens leaving them in summer and taking to the other farm buildings the trees and even to the fence tops as ro places they rarely go back to the house when they havo have once left it and this leads directly to losses by night birds barda prowling animals and casual chicken thieves it is better to keep the house as clean as possible and by doing this insero the ro of the birds on their accustomed perches limber neck Is a very fatal disease that nourishes flourishes in warm weather around the dirty chicken house or the yards that are carelessly kept kepl leaving a decaying carcass around where the chickens can find it Is the surest way of killing oft a bunch of them by means of this disease the green flyr fly the larvae of that fly and the dead carcass are all that to la necessary to got get the epidemic well started the fly lays the eggs the egg or the larvae are eaten by the birds and the cases of limber neck develop with certainty and dispatch every bird that dies from any cause at any time should be burned but this is doubly true in hot bo weather when boucon you con older alder ther the tribet bead hens little c hicks chicks and the offal from dressed dressed chickens tin own in a fence corner or 01 tossed into the weeds where the remainder flock can got get at them you wonder that every chicken to la not dead of limber neck on some farms |