320 Farm Poultry 



"Mix with the soft food several hours before 

 feeding, as a curative and a preventive, a pinch 

 of the following mixture for each fowl: 



Hyposulfite of soda 50 grams 



Salicylate of soda 50 ' ' 



Pulverized yellow gentian 200 ' ' 



Pulverized ginger 200 " 



Pulverized sulfate of iron 100 ' ' 



"Give sulfate of iron in the drinking water, 

 1% grams to a quart of water."* 



CHOLERA 



Dr. Salmon states t that fowl cholera attacks 

 chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, pigeons, and in 

 fact all varieties of domesticated fowls. The 

 infection often takes place through drinking 

 water, or partaking of food that is contaminated 

 by the excrement of sick birds. It is possible 

 for fowls to be infected through wounds or by 

 means of the germs which may be inhaled in the 

 form of dust. He further states that the disease 

 is generally brought in by the introduction of in- 

 fected birds or with eggs that have been pur- 

 chased for hatching. This disease may be com- 

 municated to mice and rabbits by inoculation. 



Symptoms. "The symptoms of American fowl 

 cholera were first described by Dr. Salmon in 



*" Journal D'Agriculture Pratique," 1895, Tome 2, pp. 913, 914. 

 tThe Diseases of Poultry," pp. 233, 234. 



