DISEASES OF POULTRY 243 



Treatment: To grown fowls, give Zinc Sulpbocar- 

 bolates in one-half grain doses three times a day in their 

 food or drinking water. To chicks, dissolve thirty grains 

 of Zinc Sulphocarbolates in two quarts of water. Satu- 

 rate feed, as stale bread, etc., and give three times a day. 

 Zinc Sulphocarbolates is an antiseptic especially pre- 

 pared for septic conditions of the intestines, and very 

 useful in treatment of White Diarrhoea and Fowl Chol- 

 era. In severe cases of diarrhoea, give Bismuth Salicy- 

 late, one grain, three times daily in feed or make into a 

 pill with dough. When the fowls will eat, feed them 

 clean, nitrogenous food that they can digest easily, as 

 oatmeal mashes. It is also necessary to give them pure 

 water to drink at all times. Disinfection of the premises 

 is another essential factor in the treatment of this dis- 

 ease, and undiluted Crude Carbolic Acid is a disinfectant 

 that we can rely upon at all times. 



I cannot recommend vaccination as the serum is very 

 difficult and expensive to produce and different breeds 

 of birds require varying doses, therefore, vaccinating 

 poultry for White Diarrhoea or Fowl Cholera is not at- 

 tended with any great degree of success. 



WORMS 



Cause : Few fowls are entirely free from worms. The 

 soil over which the chicks are permitted to run may be 

 infected, or the food may contain the eggs or embryos 

 of worms. 



Symptoms : The presence of worms in fowls may not 

 be at once detected, since only a close observer would 

 notice them in the droppings. If the birds eat well but 

 remain poor, and the feathers appear rough and the 

 comb and wattles pale, there is reason to suspect the 

 existence of worms. 



Treatment : Preventive treatment is the best. Sprin- 

 kle the runs and coops regularly with Crude Carbolic 



