PART ill. 



THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 



Preliminary Remarks. 



THERE are no colleges established for the study of 

 the diseases of poultry, and there are no graduated 

 poultry physicians, and, outside of homoeopathy, there is 

 little, if any, belief in the efficacy of medicine in treat- 

 ing the ills of feathered creation. Indeed, an eminent 

 authority on poultry rather drearily remarks : " It is 

 almost useless, and rarely ever worth while, to treat 

 sick poultry." This is true if no treatment, but what, 

 for the sake of distinction, may be termed allopathic, 

 is known, but it is not true if homoeopathy be employed. 

 In the latter case, the labor involved is next to nothing, 

 the expense very slight, while the treatment is highly 

 effective, as has been demonstrated in thousands of cases, 

 and this most markedly so in epidemic diseases which 

 carry off entire flocks. 



One of the greatest difficulties to overcome in writ- 



