CHICKEN CHOLERA. 563 



Chicken Cholera. 



This disease may be epidemic, and contagious. The same means 

 for disinfection, and destroying bad cases, should be observed as 

 given for roup. 



A good remedy is to feed raw onions, chopped tine, mixed 

 with their food, about twice or three times a week. A remedy pub- 

 lished by the Department of Agriculture, is alum-water ; three or 

 four teaspoonfuls of it are to be mixed with their feed and given 

 daily. This is reputed to cure the very worst cases. 



ANOTHER remedy is: 



Spirits of turpentine 2 teaspoonfuls. 



Sulphur 1^ ounces. 



Bran or meal 1 quart. 



Mix. Feed once a day. It is usually an effectual cure for this 

 disease. 



A correspondent's letter to the Ohio Farmer says : " Cholera 

 was very bad here last spring, and I will tell your readers how we 

 cured it. For every forty fowls we took a piece of asafetida the 

 size of a hickory-nut, broke it in small pieces and mixed it in about 

 a pint of cornmeal, wet it thoroughly with boiling water, and 

 placed it near the roosting place, so that the chickens could eat of 

 it the first thing in the morning. If they were not unable to eat, a 

 cure was certain." 



For Drooping Wings. 



Take crude petroleum and apply a little underneath the wings 

 of the fowls and on their beaks and it will soon remedy this diffi- 

 culty. This drooping originates from vermin, which the oil will 

 remove. 



To Exterminate Lice. 



Lice or vermin on fowls can be very readily removed by sprink- 

 ling kerosene oil on the roosts and nests. Or, a better plan is to 

 tack a narrow strip of cloth on the top of the scantling on which 

 they roost and then sprinkle the oil on this. Another good means 

 is to sprinkle sulphur on the ground where they dust themselves. 

 To make roosts of sassafras poles is also recommended. The bind- 

 ers or roosts may be sprinkled with Scotch snuff. If the hen spider 

 a minute louse infests the hen house, fumigate with burning 

 sulphur and tar, and whitewash all surfaces with lime slaked with 

 dilute carbolic acid. 



Cold and Catarrh. 



Give pulverized red or Cayenne pepper, in soft feed, every day 

 or two until relieved. Keep your fowls on dry, elevated places, if 

 possible. 



