46 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



there is only one thing you can do if you get fowl cholera into 

 the poultry plant, and that is, start right out with a club or axe 

 — and a club is best — and kill ofT the ones that are the worst. 

 If you spend time trying to cure them, the first thing you know 

 you will have the entire plant sick, and you will not be able to 

 get rid of the disease for some time. The reason I say use a 

 club is that we do not want to let the cholera chicken bleed, if 

 possible to prevent it, on the place. The blood of such a 

 chicken is just as infectious as anything else about the disease. 

 If fowls eat it, they can take the disease. If they eat raw eggs 

 w^hich come from cholera infected fowls they are liable to have 

 the cholera, or even if they eat the flesh of such birds. So if 

 you are careful to eliminate such birds, then when you get 

 through with the epidemic you are through with it. 



The first thing, when you discover the presence of the 

 cholera is to get rid of the chickens that are very seriously 

 infected, and then to take all the suspects and get them away 

 from the other fowls that you know are well. Then use a 

 two per cent, solution of sulphuric acid and spray it all over 

 everything except the fowls. Take the litter out, scrape up 

 every floor, clean up the drinking vessels that have been used, 

 and treat them with a good strong solution of pure creolin, 

 two ounces to a gallon of water. After that you better white- 

 wash the buildings, and use a couple of ounces of creolin in 

 making the whitewash. In the drinking water you can use a 

 pretty powerful remedy, and that is mercury bichloride and 

 corrosive sublimate. It is one of the best intestinal remedies 

 and disinfectants we have. I use tablets of one one-thousandth 

 of a grain. You do not want to let the disinfectant stand 

 around w^iere the birds can get at it, or it will kill the whole 

 flock. That remedy should be given at the rate of twelve tab- 

 lets to a quart of drinking water. If you give it in the way I 

 have described you w^ill not have any trouble, and you will 

 cure the disease in its mild stages, and you will prevent others 

 from having trouble too. And not only that but you will cure 

 a whole lot of bowel trouble. 



