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the vapor from the boiling Cresoline to rise for a couple of liours 

 every evening for a week. This will eradicate a contagious 

 cold. Give the birds a good laxative of Epsom salts in their 

 drinking water while so doing. 



Canker 



Hard canker can be cauterized with chemically pure blue 

 vitrol or bluestone. Wet a little paddle in some water so the 

 bluestone will cling to it. Hold the paddle against the canker 

 for a minute or so. Remove the blackened canker carefully 

 before applying the second time. Treat about twice in one day. 

 Be careful not to let any bluestone run down the bird's throat. 

 A caustic pencil will cauterize small spots of canker. Get the 

 bluestone at a drug store. The above remedies will do for an 

 occasional case of canker, but when it runs through a whole 

 flock, you had better look to your feed and water. Plenty of liver 

 salts put in the drinking water every day for a month together 

 with a feed suitable to the climatic conditions will stamp it 

 out of a flock. Slightly underfeed your birds and cut down on 

 yellow com, hemp, or any other grain that is very heating. In 

 other words, allow the bird a chance to cool off his blood. You 

 will hardly ever find canker among underfed birds. 



Cheesy Canker 



Dip a piece of cotton into some Ichthyol and swab out the 

 bird's throat once or twice a day. Do not allow any to run 

 down the bird's throat. The cheesy canker or diphtheria roop 

 will disappear. 



Loose Bowels 



Cut down on the amount of soft wheat you are feeding and 

 substitute rice. If a bird is very sick, give it nothing but boiled 

 milk to drink with its feed. If the droppings show that the 

 bird has a cold in the bowels, make it swallow two No. 5 capsules 

 full of quinine every day for three or four days, after which 

 give it a physic of Epsom salts. 



Sour Crop 



Purge the bird's crop with salty water. Give him a charcoal 

 tablet, and let him go hungry for a day. Do not let him overeat 



