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14. Outline method of making a post-mortem examination. 



15. Name five common poultry medicines; state method of use and effect. 



16. Name four common external parasites of poultry. 



17. Describe the effects of body lice. 



18. Describe a good method of spraying fowls for lice. What is used? 



19. Give the composition of a reliable, homemade powder for destroying lice. 



20. Describe the chicken mite and his manner of attack. 



21. Tell how to keep down the ravages of mites. 



22. What is meant by scaly legs? How can the trouble be cured? 



23. Are mosquitoes ever injurious to poultry? What are the effects? 



24. Describe and give method of combating two common intestinal parasites 



of poultry. 



25. Tell how to control the gapeworm. 



26. Name common diseases of the digestive system. 



27. Give a list of diseases of the hen's reproductive organs. 



28. What diseases affect the respiratory system? 



29. When is it desirable to practise poultry surgery? 



30. Describe the procedure in treating cuts and wounds. 



31. W hat is bumble foot? Give its cause. 



32. How would you treat a frozen comb? 



33. Mention predaceous enemies of poultry, and tell how to control each. 



References. — Poultry Diseases and their Treatment, by Pearl, Surface, 

 and Curtis, Maine Bulletin. Fowl Typhoid, by Cooper Curtice, Rhode Island 

 Bulletin 87. Tapeworm Disease of Fowls, by Gage and Opperman, Maryland 

 Bulletin 139. Tuberculosis in Fowls, by A. R. Ward, California Bulletin 161. 

 Common Diseases of Fowls, their Control and Treatment, by F. D. Chester, 

 Delaware Bulletin 47. Chicken Pox or Sore Head in Poultry, by C. A. Cary, 

 Alabama Bulletin 136. Diseases of Chickens, by H. J. Milks, Louisiana Bulle- 

 tin 108. Lice and Mites of Poultry, by Nathan Banks, U. S. Bureau of Ento- 

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 California Report, 1903. Asthenia (growing light in fowls), by Chas. F. Daw- 

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