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It is about the same way with canker. Personally, I have never 

 been able to get a sufficiently powerful microscope to be able 

 to differentiate so as to say positively which is which, or how 

 much is the product of the disease itself. Now with chickenpox 

 the most satisfactory thing that we have tried is to use a solu- 

 tion of hydrogen dioxide, three per cent, with about an equal 

 part of water, and bathe the sores, first removing the scabs, 

 and after that apply an ointment made up of a mixture of one 

 part of finely powdered iodoform, and tewenty parts pure 

 vaseline. Usually that will knock the chickenpox out. Some- 

 times it is necessary to give a little treatment internally, and 

 for that there is nothing any better than sulphide of calcium. 

 The sulphide of calcium should be given in the drinking water, 

 about as much as will cover an ordinary three-cent piece in a 

 gallon of water, and that will give a gallon of water the smell 

 of a rotten egg. When you have once gotten the chickenpox 

 around your place you should thoroughly disinfect. You 

 want to get all of the dirty, musty litter out of the place. You 

 better not have any litter until you get rid of the disease. Just 

 run them on bare floors. 



Professor Graham asked me to say something about cholera. 

 I never saw a genuine case of chicken cholera in this section 

 of the country. I have seen a good many cases of the disease, 

 but not in this section. I have been through one cholera epi- 

 demic at Millville, N. J., and that started from an epidemic up 

 the line that we did not know about. We were buying eggs 

 for hatching. We had a plant that carried about four thousand 

 birds for breeding stock, and for several years we bought eggs 

 for hatching, and were running at the time two large size 

 Cypher incubators. Naturally we had a whole lot of infertile 

 eggs to dispose of. The brokers to whom we sold those in- 

 fertile eggs became prejudiced against them, and they refused 

 to buy our infertile eggs for some reason, so that in order to 

 get rid of them we started in to cook those eggs and to feed 

 them to the stock. And then one of those things happened 



