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thf.t it will pay to carry the best layers For this, the first double test, it was
over the moult for the second year's found that the pullets laid an average
laying, IIi -e is an illustration of the value of $4.12 per head, and consumed
benefit of the divisional pen system, I1.68 worth of food, leaving a profit per
with the picking out of the most likely head of $2.44 while the old hens yielded
pullets, an i penning them up in pens in $3,01 worth of eggs, and consumed $1.52
grades of best, second best, and third worth of food, leaving a profit per head
best layers, it will be found that many of of $1.49, and a great advantage to the
the hens will pay very well to keep for poultry farmer would be the increase
a second term, and just as decisive will weight of the eggs. It was found that
the fact be that many of them will not in the general average the weights in-
pay. To market the second and third creased appreciably in the eggs laid in
grades will add to the prodt of the best. the second term.

77ie Ends are Hinged and Folded Ba k When Coop is Closed.

White Diarrhoea in Youn^ Chicks.

Written by Dr. F. W. Ross.
This disease causes more deaths in These investigations and bulletins
young chicks than almost all otiicrs always give the result of a series of tried,
combined, often taking entire flocks tested and proven experiments. The
in a short time. It is practically incur- working details are not necessarily men-
able unless immediately checked; once tioned, but you may depend upon it
getting in a fiock it is hard to eradicate. when the department says it has found
The best way to cure it is to prevent a cause and suggests a remedy, back
it. The Department of Animal Indus- of it all is the work of real quahfied
try at Washington has been investiga- government experts.
ting the disease and suggests a simple Now these experts may not be able
means of prevention. to tell a Wyandotte from a Cochin, but
The bulletin says, wash the eggs in they do know how to investigate disease.
pure alcohol. Now this does not mean There has been a very important and
impure or denattired alcohol, neither valuable discovery made by the de-
does it mean to use wood alcohol as partment, and it is to the interest of
many may do and kill the chicks. poultrymen to profit by it. So do as