Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1919 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY NOTES

Far more chicks die from getting chilled than any other one cause. * * * Spare feeding the first week or two would save many a chick lost otherwise. • • • Air-slaked lime, scattered about houses, yards'and runs, is a great disinfectant. • • • The colony house keeps the farm poultry flock away from the farm buildings. **■_• * * Grit in sufficient quantity means fewer digestive troubles. It must take the place of teeth. i• • * If the range dries up, green food must be supplied In order to produce eggs at a profit. • • * The prevention of poultry diseases is far more important than the cure. It is safer and cheaper and easier work. *