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Show SANITATION PAYS CHICKEN RAISERS Illinois fanners, who took big strides toward more profitable pork production produc-tion by adopting swine sanitation, are now finding that sanitation pays Just as well around the chicken, lot as it does with pigs. To further the Idea, poultry specialists of the college of agriculture, ag-riculture, University of Illinois mapped out a workable system of poultry sanitation san-itation and already many chicken raisers of the state are profiting as a result of It. I There's the case of B. A. Barker, a ' Gnn dy county farmer, for instance, who took up the poultry sanitation ; idea and thereby nut a stop to the ; heavy. losses which he had been taking as a result of tapeworms and other poultry parasites and diseases. In connection with the sanitation system, Barker yarded his old hens for the first time this past year and as a result re-sult the egg production of the flock . was more uniform throughout the summer sum-mer than It had been in previous years, due to the fact that the heus were uniformly fed. Cndor this plan j they always had access to mash but were not allowed to overeat on grain. Barker has co-operated with the agri-tultural agri-tultural college In its poultry flock record project for three years. In putting the poultry sanitation plan Into practice on his farm, Barker had his liock tested for tuberculosis. It also was pronounced free of bacll-Inry bacll-Inry white diarrhea, one of the worst of the manv chick diseases. The old yard where most of the chicks had been raised before was turned into a garden and the chicks this past year raised on fresh ground which was sown to oafs and rape. During the summer the rape provided shade as well as green feed. A movable brooder brood-er house was used. C. II. Wllke, a McLean county farm er, Is another Illinois poultrymnn who has profited as a result of following a definite system of poultry sanitation. sanita-tion. Wilke, who is co-operating with the extension service of the agricultural college in keeping records on his chickens, took olT a hatch oi iai chicks in March and placed them on clean ground where no chicks had ever been raised before. Tlie ground happened to be In a corn field. In line with the sanitation system which he was practicing, Wilke used movable mov-able brooder houses. No signs of disease dis-ease showed up in these chicks throughout through-out the entire season and 100 pullets were taken from the bunch and placed In winter quarters. They were plump and ready to lay. Wiike's experiences wiih a batch of April chickens which were raised the j old way are a striking contrast to Ihe results which he obtained under the sanitation plan. There were 1,332 chicks in the hatch that came off In April. They were raised In old chicken yards where hens had run before be-fore and where chicks had been raised In previous years. The result was that one disease alone, coccldiosls, w iped out 25 per cent of the' chicks. Roup followed as a result of the weakened weak-ened condition of the stock. |