58 Apricultural Gazette of N.S.W. [Jan. 2, 1908. 



map;no.sia (Epsom salts) to 1 gallon of wator ; place this ^vater (and no otlior) 

 Itclorc your chicks twice a week (liiriii;j: the summer months. Use this treat- 

 ment, and a case of soi'e Jiead will he a rare occiirrencf in your yards. 



Jf yon have not used this treatment, and should have the disease in your 

 flocks, a remedy we have used successfully is to batlie the head of the fowl in 

 warm water, and apply to all sores a coat of pine tar; do not try to pull off 

 the scah; let tiiem droj) off. Many applications have heen suggested; hut 1 

 would advise that in all conlluent cases — that is, where the [)ustiil<'s united 

 and form a crust over the face and eyes — I used the hatchet. 



Tlu' aljuvc rccoiiiincndat ions for cleanliness in the poultry yards as a 

 preventive of cliicken-]M).\- may have heen effective in the instance qvioted, 

 hut if so the disease must he of a differi'iit form fi'om lliat experienced 

 here, where fanciers' yards which have l)eeii iikhIcIs of cleaidi iicss have 

 had the disease in the most destructive foi'in. Bathing- tjie head in pine 

 tar or aught else would have no curative effect in many cases here. 

 Outward applications of vaseline, oil, <ir other t>Teasy material are 

 certainly useful in the way of allaying painfulncss of the sores and 

 I'fduciiiL;- irritation, ])ut the disease has to go tlirouLili its various stages, 

 terminating in the scal)s dropping oft". Consecpiently we have to fall 

 back on tlie remedies suggested hy T>ewis "Wri'jht, Mrs. Kawson, and 

 others: small doses of nuignesia and suli)hur, with st rcULithenini:' fooil 

 throughout the period, with an occasional application of oil, vaseline. Szc. 

 Should the scabs have l)ecome }>rematurely removed, thus leaving a raw 

 looking sore, one of the l)est healing ointments can be jirepai'cd as- 

 follows : — 



Powdered oxide of zinc, 80 grains 

 Glycerine, 1 drachm 

 Lanolin. 1 drachm 

 Lard, G drachms. 



Melt tile lard and lanolin togetlier. add the glycerine, and stir in the 

 zinc until the ointment " sets." The most simple and effective way to 

 apply the ointment is with the finger. 



Before leaving the suliject it shoidd be menti(Micd that there are some 

 poultry keepers who attribute the disease to mos(|uiloes. The best answer 

 to the above, at time of writing, is that moscpiitoes are as ]dentiful as 

 they can be, but there is no chicken-pox. There, however, is no doubt 

 that these irritating and disease-carrying insects interfere in delaying 

 largely the course of tJie chicken-pox disease, thougli in no way 

 responsible for its outbreak. 



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