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thrown out; also, maggots found in rotten manure 

 may cause it, but, perhaps, are not so apt to as those 

 gotten from rotten meat. 



Symptoms: The disease is sometimes so rapidly- 

 fatal that no symptoms are noticed before the death 

 of the fowl, but where the illness lasts for one or two 

 days there will be extreme prostration, the head and 

 neck hanging limp (which gives it the name of ''Lim- 

 ber Neck"); the wings of the fowl are drooped; fre- 

 quently there is a diarrhoea; the feathers often be- 

 come loose and drop out; the fowl may lie on its 

 breast unable to rise, and occasionally flutter, or die 

 without a struggle. 



Treatment: The cause must be sought and re- 

 moved. As a preventive for those that are not al- 

 ready afflicted, dissolve an ounce of hyposulphite of 

 soda in each gallon of their drinking water, once a 

 day. To the sick, one-half grain of calomel may be 

 given every four hours, until three or four doses are 

 given. Follow with a grain of quinine and one or two 

 drops of tincture nux vomica given thre3 times a day. 

 Four or five drops of turpentine given in a teaspoon- 

 ful of sweet milk, three or four times a day, is also 

 said to be a speedy cure. 



