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than I can give it, hence this caution. There is no patent on the use of horso 

 roanure, nor that I am aware of on the use of lamps, still on some forms of 

 apparatus connected with them, there are patents, I believe. 



Remarks. — Observe here, care with sulphur prevented lice. Putting a 

 little cayenne in the food if looseness appeared, saved them. Keeping out of 

 wet grass saved from gapes, and cholera too, no doubt. The coal ashes made 

 the dust-bath, and her care in changing the ashes often and keeping only about 

 thirty in one place or yard, as she calls her difterent enclosures, kept them in a 

 thriving and healthy condition. Notice, too, that Guinea hens are the specific, 

 positive thing against hawks, (see their value also below in gardens, as devour- 

 «rs of bugs and all insects therein. 



Chicken Cholera, Successfxil Remedies.— It has become a well- 

 settled fact that if chickens have warm and dry, but well-ventilated houses, of 

 a size to correspond with the number kept, with their dust-baths, are properly 

 fed, and have free access to pure water daily, with ordinary care, they will 

 hardly ever have cholera, or other diseases. Then if it begins, see in which of 

 these points you have failed, and correct it at once. And 



I. It has also been found that onions chopped and put into the food once 

 a day for several days, then once a week, and also ground ginger, a little (I 

 should say as freely as they would eat it) in their meal at their next feeding, 

 every day or two will cure cholera; then I claim they will prevent it, if fed 

 occasionally, when it is known to be prevalent in a neighborhood. A writer 

 says : " Raw onions and a very little ginger against the world for curing 

 cholera, if the disease has not been allowed to run too far," and adds, " too 

 much whole corn we have found injurious ; it should be in meal, and only 

 given once in three or four days in hot weather 



II. Common red pepper, or Cayenne, one" tea-spoonful in a quart of 

 milk, or a quart of meal, says Mrs. J. E. Duvall, of Jamestown, Pa., "is the 

 way I cured mine." I know the Cayenne and the ginger are both valuable in 

 cholera, or looseness of the bowels, of persons, why not with these smaller 

 animals ? It must so prove. A poultry fancier (one who has a special liking 

 for raising poultry) " cures chicken cholera by feeding, every other day, for 

 two weeks, bran mash, in which he puts a liberal dose of common red pepper. 

 One old biddy," he says, " was determined to die, crouched in an out-of-the- 

 way spot. But I sought her out, gave her a whole pepper, in doses, one hour 

 apart, kept her in a warm place, and she, in a few days, gave me notice she 

 could take care of herself." 



III. " Hog's lard," another one claims, "cold, in doses of one level table- 

 spoonful to a fowl, and if not better, repeated in twenty-four hours, is a tried 

 and true remedy, and will cure if anything in creation will cure." 



IV. Alum and copperas is also claimed to be a well-tested remedy for 

 chicken cholera, given in the following manner: "At the first symptoms," 

 (drooping and looseness) " dissolve, for each gallon of drinking water, one tea- 

 s^^oonful of each, and put in ; and at the same time give daily, in the soft feed, 

 a little sharp sand at the rate of one tea-spoonful to each fowl. In sever© 



