44 THE POULTRY DOCTOR. 



food and housing is of the best. What is the matter ? 

 The owner asks the question of his editor, and that gen- 

 tlemen doesn't answer satisfactorily. 



When young fowls of this age begin to droop and 

 die they should be carefully examined to make sure that 

 lice are not the cause. If no lice be found there is a 

 plain call for medicine. There are 110 incurable diseases 

 given if treated in time and the proper homoaopathic 

 remedy selected. The condition described is so vague 

 that no remedy can be with certainty prescribed, but 

 the probabilities are that a helpful one will be found 

 among the three following : Calcarea carb., Chamo- 

 milla or Hepar sulph. The conditions distinguishing 

 these remedies must necessarily be vague. In general, 

 Calcarea carb. when there seems to be arrested growth, 

 Chamomilla, when there is foul evacuation, and Hepar 

 when the chick looks scrofulous or, so to say, mangy. 

 Even a fourth remedy may be added, and a good one 

 Aconite, when there is restlessness, " crying," and a 

 general feverish condition. Administer the remedy, a 

 dozen or more pellets, in the water cup or food of the 

 fowls; in the latter case dissolve in water and mix 

 thoroughly. 



As already stated, this is merely suggestive. It is an 

 analogy between the teething of babes and the growing 



