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in the drinking water, or, if they will not drink, dip a 

 little white bread in the water and let them eat it if they 

 will. Among the other remedies are Arsenicum, Acon- 

 ite, Dulcamara and Colchicum, the last named being 

 preferred by some authorities. Give the selected remedy 

 twenty hours trial, and if there is no improvement, 

 change to one of the others named. 



Cholera. 



It was frequently observed at the times and places 

 when cholera was epidemic among human beings that 

 chickens, turkeys, geese and farmyard fowls generally, 

 became in many instances similarly affected. At the 

 present day the word " cholera " is applied to an epi- 

 demic which while varying somewhat in different parts 

 of the country is always accompanied by a violent 

 diarrhoea, and is very fatal. Some of the characteristics 

 of this disease are : Sad looks, lost appetite, weakness, 

 staggering, thirst, hanging heads; in more advanced 

 stages a tough mucus trickled from the bills, which 

 hang so low as to touch the ground, the comb becomes 

 shrunken and of a bluish color, while the diarrhoea is 

 violent and almost liquid, yellowish or greenish, frothy ; 

 as the end approaches the eyes close. Being an epidemic 

 it is well to treat the entire flock, though if the sick can 



