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digested. Foods of gelatinous nature, like cooked 

 linseed meal, are specially recommended. Some 

 poultrymen place a high value on charcoal which 

 has been broken into small pieces, about the size 

 of a kernel of corn. This is placed before them 

 and left to the judgment of the fowls to eat 

 what is needed. A few drops of laudanum is 

 recommended in severe cases. 



SALT POISONING 



Salt in small doses, as before stated, is very 

 beneficial, but large quantities may produce death. 

 It is stated on good authority that one-half an 

 ounce to one ounce is fatal to a chicken. Salt 

 fish and some salt meats, and the brine in which 

 meats have been preserved, are specially dan- 

 gerous. 



Whites of eggs and the liquor of boiled flax- 

 seed are recommended as remedies. Laudanum 

 and finely powdered chalk in water, together or 

 singly, may sometimes be given with good effect. 

 Laudanum is especially valuable when consider- 

 able pain is manifest. 



EATS 



Eats sometimes become very troublesome in 

 poultry houses, and the question of their extermi- 



