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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ October 3, 1835 



POULTRY, BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHRONICLE. 



A FATAL, DISEASE AMONG POULTRY 

 PREVAILS IN PARIS. 



StJCH is the whole of a paragraph which appeared in a local 

 paper a short time since. Possibly more has been said else- 

 where ; but if so, it has escaped my notice. If this newspaper 

 account be true it is very necessary to he informed on two 

 points — firstly, what the disease is like, and, secondly, how the 

 Parisians treat it. Then follow the questions — Are we likely 

 to have it amongst our birds ? and if so. What are the best 

 means to adopt for prevention ? What are the symptoms ? 

 Have we got it already ? 



This last question brings to my memory a paragraph in 

 the "Field," of the 9th of last month, headed "Cholera in 

 Poultry." It is there stated that several young chickens were 

 almost all seized at once with excessive purging, and that they 

 died at from two to four days after the beginning of the attack. A 

 brood of nine chickens came in contact with these, and all died 

 in one night. I have noticed amongst my own birds a tendency 

 to diarrhcea ; but by constant watchfulness I have had neither 

 illness nor death from this cause. With disease around us in 

 animal and vegetable life, it is necessary that at every sound of 

 alarm public notice should be aroused. 



I have been too short a time a poultry fancier, and too for- 

 tunate in the health of my birds to be learned in their diseases. 

 Perhaps I am about to discover a mare's nest, or to inquire 

 into that which is very well known to every one else ; but I 

 think your readers will agree with me that to ventilate the sub- 

 ject of diseases, particularly at this time, is a matter to be 

 desired. 



During last winter I had some birds sent to me, which were 

 out of heath and with a slight roupy cold. They came from a 

 yard where roup was said to have been. By great care these 

 birds recovered. A bird of my own stock was soon seized with 

 a swelling on the right side of the face under the eye. This 

 increased very much, and a discharge from the eye and nostril, 

 apparently the result of much inflammation, set in. I showed 

 the bird to a surgeon, who had once operated on a fowl for a 

 tumour. He said that the swellmg, except to the touch, had 

 all the appearance of being one, but that it was not so, and 

 that it felt more like an enlargement of the bone. He said 

 further that it would bo useless to operate. I applied warm 

 lotions, and gave soft, nourishing, but not heating food ; yet, in 

 spite of all, the bird died. Another bird was seized in the 

 same way, and being a valuable one, I took the nursing into 

 my own hands. I gave castor oil, a piU of calomel and anti- 

 mony on alternate nights, washed the part affected night and 

 morning with warm water, and then bathed it with vinegar, 

 fed every night on oatmeal, and gave after a time cod-liver 

 oil daily. In about a month, during snow and very trying 

 weather, the bird began to recover, but remained weakly until 

 summer weather began. She then laid, hatched, brought up 

 chickens, moulted, showed signs again of the disease, and 

 whilst I was away from home this summer she died. 



About the end of .Tuly last a cock bird was seized with the 

 same attack, but before the second attack of the hen took place. 

 In this case, as soon as the tumorous swelling was of consider- 

 able size, and we noticed an affection of the roof of the mouth, 

 my man suggested that an incision should be made. This was 

 done, and with a loop formed by a twisted hairpin, he extracted 

 a filthy offensive core, and effected much discharge from the 

 eye and nostril. I gave castor oil, but no other medicine, and 

 afterwards Douglas's restorative. The bird is almost well again. 

 In this and one or two other cases, where the birds being of 

 little value were either killed or died, the affection came on the 

 right side of the face. With these exceptions I have been 

 singularly fortunate in the health of my birds. 



I hear, however, frequent complaints from others of the 

 loss of birds and iUness of one kind or another. A neigh- 

 bour has some Golden Pheasants all suffering from the same 

 kind of attack as that which my poultry suffered from. We 

 are too far apart, and have no communication with one another 

 by which disease could be carried. He has lost several. I 

 opened the swelUng in the roof of the mouth of one of his 

 birds, with the same results as in my own case. The bird is 

 now recovering ; the others have not been touched with the 

 knife. The last that died I believe he sent to you, that you 

 might examine it. 



I hope this French disease may prove to be a fable, the 

 cholera an exceptional case, and, at the risk of boring your 

 readers, that I have told them nothing new in the disease I 

 have mentioned. Still there is enough to justify inquiry, and I 

 shall be indebted to any one who can furnish a speedy remedy 

 or a Kim])le preventive for the cases that I have named, and 

 who will help to make known any coming disease with which 

 we may be threatened. — Eqomet. 



BROUGHTON, BARTON, AND GOOSNAIGH 



t DISTRICT POULTRY SHOW. 



September -21. 



This Poultry Show was held at Bronshtoa, near Preston ; there was 

 .1 namerous entry in some classes, and thu corapetitiou was very severe. 

 In Durkimjs tliere were some good specimens shown ; whilst in Si>aiiuJi,. 

 although prizes had been oitered, there was no competition. There 

 were some capital Game birds exhibited, especially the chickens. 

 Cochin- Chiiiiis figured conspicuously, there being some remarkably 

 good specimens exhibited. In the Golden-peucUled Hamljiirgkf some 

 beautiful old birds as well as chickens were shown. The same remark 

 would almost apply to the Silver-pencilled birds. Golden-spangled 

 Hamburghs were moderately represented. Silver-spangled on the 

 whole were a good show, especinlly one pen of chickens. In Game 

 BantauL'i the Show was excelleut. G'ci'sc, though very noisy, were a 

 good show. The Aylesbury Diirtx were only moderate. In Eouen 

 Ducks only one pen was exhibited. In goslings, and Aylesbury and 

 Rouen ducklings, some verj- promising specimens were exhibited. Of 

 I'igeons there were few entries. The awards were — 



Dorkings (Any colour). — Prize, J. Robinson. Vale House. Chickens. — 

 Prize, J. Robinson. Highly Commended, W. Miller, jun., Cottam. 



Gaue. — Prize, J.Harrison. Chickens, — Prize, .J. Robinson, Commended. 

 J. Harrison, .J. Bamber. J. Turner. 



Cochin-China.— Prize, -T. Robinson. Chickens.— Frize, J. Robinson. 



Hambtjrgh (Golden-pencilled). — Prize, J. Robinson. Chickens. — Prize. 

 B. Bee, Goosnaigh. Highly Commended, J. Robinson. 



Hambdugh (Silver-pencilled). — Prize, J. Robinson. Chickens. — Prize, 

 T. Pomfret. 



Haiibcrgh (Golden and Silver-spangled).— Prize, 3. Robinson. Chiekem. 

 — Prize, J. Robinson. 



Bantams,— Prize, J. Butcher, Lee. C;i;(;ltc)i.5.— Prize, W. Blackhurst. 

 jun. Highly Commended, .1. Butcher. 



Geese. — Prize, B.Bee. Goslings. — Prize, B. Bee. Commended, T. Raw- 

 cliffe, BrouRhton. 



Ducks (Aylesbury and Rouen}.—Prize, J. Robinson. Ducklings.— Frize, 

 J. Robinson. 



Pigeons. — Prize, J. Roberts, Penworthan. 



Judge. — Mr. H. P. Watson, Preston. — {Preston Guardian.) 



LANCASTER AGRICULTUR.VL SOCIETY'S 

 POULTRY SHOW. 



At this show which was held at Lancaster on the 19th September, 

 the show of poultry was very large. 



The awards were as follows : — 



Game. — First, G. Hodgson, Whittington. Second, J. Robinson, Vale 

 House, Garstang. 



Game Cock (Any colour). — Prize, J. Robinson. 



HAMBURtiH (Golden-iiencilled). — First, J. Parkinson, Elswick. Second. 

 J. Robinson. 



Hamburgh {Silver-peaeilled). — First and Second, J. Robinson. 



Hamburgh (Golden-spanf^led). — First and Second. J. Robinson. 



Hamburgh (Silver-spangled). — First and Second, J. Robinson. 



Dorkings (Any colour). — First, J. Robinson. Second, J. Parkinson. 



Coohin-China (Any colour). — First and Second, J. Wood, Chorlcy. 

 Highly Commended J. Robinson ; J. Hodgson. 



Spanish (Black).— First, J. Hodgson. Second, M. Slater, Tatham. 



Bantams (Game).— First, T. Kenyon, Blackburn. Second, J.Parkinson. 



Bantams (Any variety). — First, C. J. Clarke, Torrisholme. Second, 

 W. Jackson, Lancaster. 



Turkeys.— First, J. P. C. StarJue, AsbtonHall. Second, J. Amiistead, 

 Qucrnmoor. 



Ducks (Aylesbury). — First and Second, J. Robinson. 



Ducks (Rouen). — First, J. Parkinson. Second, J. Robinson. 



Geese.— Prize, Mrs. Gardner, Quernmoor. 



Judges. — Mr. R. Teebay, Fulwood, near Preston ; Mr. Peel. 

 Lancaster. 



Manchester Poultry Show. — The Messrs, Jenuison, of the 

 Zoological Gardens. Belle Vue, near Manchester, have just 

 issiied the prize schedule for their fifth Meeting, to be held 

 in the Music Hall connected \nth their extensive estabHsh- 

 ment, for the exhibition of Poultry, Pigeons, and Rabbits. The 

 days fixed for the show are the 28th, 29th, and 30th of Decem- 

 ber next. The prize list embraces the unusual number of 

 sixty-nine classes for poultry alone ; for Pigeons there are 

 twenty-four classes ; and for Rabbits ten classes. To Dorkings, 

 £57 in money, besides two silver cups, value five guineas each. 



