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four times a day proves very successful. Boiled milk 

 and lime water, equal parts, or weak store tea given 

 to drink for a few days is sometimes all the treatment 

 necessary; of course, whatever the treatment given, 

 the feeding must be carefully regulated; boiled rice 

 and oatmeal are good light diet, or, for chicks, there is 

 nothing better than very hard, dry, toasted bread. 



Another very good treatment is to give one or two 

 drops of castor oil, followed by a grain of equal parts 

 of bicarbonate of soda and powdered rhubarb given 

 three times a day to each chick. Never attempt treat- 

 ment until the cause is removed. 



Treatment for old fowls differs only in that the doses 

 should be larger and, when due to their eating some- 

 thing unwholesome, a teaspoonful of castor oil may be 

 given before the other medicine, to cleanse the digestive 

 tract. 



A dram of sulphate of iron dissolved in each quart of 

 drinking v/ater once a day often works very nicely 

 when there are only mild attacks and where a large 

 flock of chicks are to be treated. 



SIMPLE DIARRHCEA. 



Diarrhoea is usually a symptom of some other trouble 

 or it may be due to the fowls eating something that 

 will act as a purge. 



It is characterized by a very watery evacuation of 

 the bowels, often without any other apparent ill condi- 

 tion of the bird, unless it is the symptom of some 



