Wright's Book of Poultry: Revised and Edited in Accordance With the Latest Poultry Club Standards (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

S. H. Lewer

9780331608540: Wright's Book of Poultry: Revised and Edited in Accordance With the Latest Poultry Club Standards (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331608545 ISBN 13: 9780331608540

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Excerpt from Wright's Book of Poultry: Revised and Edited in Accordance With the Latest Poultry Club Standards

In the majority of cases, however, the culture was attempted by placing numerous fowls upon a small and limited area of un covered soil - more or less permanently. Now soil is one of Nature's greatest disinfectors; it contains within it myriads of small organisms for the purpose of breaking up organic matter, such as poultry manure, the presence of which would provide an unhealthy environment for the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Organic matter is present in moderate amount, these scavengers are efficient workers, but once contamination reaches excess they are literally poisoned, and suspend or cease their efforts for good and all. In poultry manure. For instance, there is nothing harmful in the way of toxins or poisons to which we refer. They appear only when sufi'icient moisture and heat are available for the development of putrefactive organisms, the life cycle of which is associated with poisonous gases and toxins fatal to the health of the soil germs them selves, or those poultry that have the misfor tune to be continuously subjected to such insanitary surroundings. Not only do the poultry inhale the noxious fumes rising with the cool ground air as it expands from the heat evolved in the putrefactive process. Or that actually forthcoming from the fowls themselves, but they unavoidably consume much fetid matter adherent to grain or other food that is served.

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