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in a quart of water. Mix the food 

 with that water, also put a teaspoon- 

 ful in a quart of the drinking water 

 and allow no other water for drink- 

 ing. Keep this treatment up for a 

 week. Meanwhile clean up the yards 

 by having them either ploughed un- 

 der or dug up and a crop of some 

 kind planted, something that will 

 grow quickly, such as wheat or bar- 

 ley, and as far as possible destroy 

 the birds that are bringing you the 

 trouble, for I cannot but think it must 

 be pigeons or some other wild birds. 

 The worms will kill the young chick- 

 ens, but they do not always kill the 

 older fowls. Sometimes the worms 

 come from unclean or spoiled food, 

 from "webby" grains and bad animal 

 food. You will have to discover for 

 yourself where they are getting the 

 worms from and cut off the source of 

 supply. 



Intestinal Worms I wish a little 

 information and advice in regard to 

 a valuable Buff Orpington cockerel I 

 own. He has become mopy and goes 

 away under the trees by himself, and 

 has lost over half of his weight in a 

 month. He eats like a horse, though, 

 of everything, I give my hens, but 

 shakes his head an awful lot, as 

 though something was wrong. I 

 looked in his throat and it looks all 

 right. He has changed in color from 

 a light buff to a very dark red since 

 acting unwell, and has grown to be a 

 homely, dopey bird, from a real beau- 

 tiful lively one a short time ago. 

 M. J. Q. 



Answer I think your Buff Orping- 

 ton cockerel has intestinal worms. 

 You had better give him 25 drops of 

 spirits of turpentine on a lump of 

 bread, or in a spoonful of water, and 

 follow that immediately with two tea- 

 spoonfuls of castor oil. Keep him 

 shut up so you can watch the drop- 

 pings and remove and burn or bury 

 them deeply. If you do not find 

 worms in his droppings, give him ten 

 drops of tincture of male-fern on a 

 lump of sugar, followed in an hour 

 by a dose of castor oil. This is for 

 tape worms. Both the remedies 

 should be given after twelve hours or 

 more fasting. 



noticed what look like worms. She 

 is thin and looks like she has catarrh. 

 Can you help her? Also a Plymouth 

 Rock rooster who has a film over his 

 eyes and sleeps all day, begins to take 

 exercise about sun down; appetite 

 fair. I feed every variety of chicken 

 food alternating, and keep shells, 

 charcoal and green food, and they are 

 not fenced in. J. L. 



Answer Your little bantam hen 

 undoubtedly has worms, as you see 

 them in her droppings. Your Ply- 

 mouth Rock male bird also has them, 

 for sleepiness is one of the chief 

 symptoms of worms in the intestines. 

 The best cure I know is turpentine; 

 ten drops in a teaspoonful of castor 

 oil, after the chickens have fasted 

 twenty-four hours. 



If you have other chickens, and 

 think they may have worms, you had 

 better give the whole flock some tur- 

 pentine in their drinking water. 

 Thirty drops of turpentine to a pint of 

 water. Do not let them have any 

 water without turpentine in it for a 

 week. 



Bantam Affected I have a little 

 hen, bantam, in whose droppings I 



Several Kinds I am in despair and 

 it is lice, lice, lice. We have Brown 

 Leghorns, and as they will not sit, we 

 borrowed a setting hen and she only 

 stayed with us long enough to give 

 our hens a supply of grey head-lice. 

 When we discovered them we went 

 to work with a lice killer, sprayed the 

 coops, ground and nests, put the 

 chickens in a box and left them three 

 hours. We also used crude oil, 

 poured gallons on the ground, painted 

 nests, roosts, etc., but still the lice 

 stayed on the hens' heads. Last 

 week we bought six Buff Orpingtons; 

 yesterday we found they were alive 

 with body lice, yellow lice, especially 

 around the vent; there were thou- 

 sands; then we examined the Leg- 

 horns, found they were infected also. 

 What shall we do? Do you think it 

 would hurt them to wash them now 

 with the kerosene emulsion? Am 

 afraid it might give them a cold. 

 Mrs. C. S. B. 



Answer What I should do were I 

 in your place would be to get some 

 Buhach powder, rub it well into the 

 chickens' heads for the head lice, and 

 well into the fluff under the wings and 

 on the backs for the body lice, then 

 put the hens, six or a dozen at a time, 



