763 DR CHASE'S RECIPES. 



cases, give at once, by hand, mixed in a little dough, a piece of sX-zyo. and cop- 

 peras, each the size of a pea, and also mix a tea-spoonful of sand with a little 

 meal and water, for the fowl Continue the medicated water, and sanded 

 feed, until all signs of the disease disappear." 



2. Chicken Cholera, an "Infallible Remedy."— A correspondent 

 of the Blade, I believe, says : 



"I have found a mixture of two ounces, each, of red pepper, alum, resin, 

 and sulphur to be an infallible remedy for this scourge. Last summer I lost 

 more than fifty common fowls from cholera, my Buff Cochins not being 

 affected. I chanced to see the above mixture recommended, and tried it, mix- 

 ing one table-spoonful in three pints of scalded corn meal, and, though several 

 fowls were in the last stages of the disease, they recovered, and I have not lost 

 a chicken since. In severe cases I would advise giving one-third of a tea- 

 epoonful in a meal-pellet to each fowl every day till well. Put a small lump 

 of alum, say the size of a hickory nut, in their drinking water." 



Bemarks, — This receipt calls for resin (rosin) as one of the ingredients ; but 

 from my knowledge of the nature of rosin and copperas, I should much prefer 

 copperas in the place of the rosin, and with the copperas I should have no 

 fears at all. The writer says : "Alum the size of a hickory nut, in their 

 drinking water." This amount, or one tea-spoonful powdered, would be the 

 right quantity for one quart, or enough for oneMozen fowls, and then I'd also 

 put in the same of copperas, or, preferably the tonic below, as there directed. 

 If " Cochins " do not take this disease, they are correspondingly more valuable 

 than other breeds, 



VI. Rue for Otiolera.~From the New York Sun. It says . 



" Get a few cents' worth of garden rue at your nearest druggist's and 

 break up fine and mix with chopped vegetables, meat, and cooked corn meaL 

 Put a pinch of the rue leaves in tiie food every day, until there are no further 

 signs of the cholera. Every poultry keeper should have a bed of rue ia his 

 garden to u»o whenever it is needed. Five cents' worth of rue seed will pro- 

 duce plants enough for a neighborhood, and they will grow almoat any- 

 where." 



Bemarks.—'Wiih. this disease, as with erery other, in animals, as well a£ in 

 persons, begin with the remedy you determine upon as the best, or the one you 

 will try, " vrith the first symp^ms," and you will hare bat little trouble, and 

 less loss. 



Tonlo for Poultry.— The sulphate of iron, copperas, has often beea 

 recommended by poultry men as a valuable tonic for fowls of all kinds, 

 especially valuable in the "moulting season," besides occasionally in summer, 

 but more often in cold winter weather. Many formulas, or receipts, have 

 been given for it, but I like the one best given by the SorUhem Farmer, being 

 always ready to use when needed, as it is all givon in ones, and will, tiierefore, 

 be easily remembered, as follows : 



" In one one gallon of w»nn water disBolve one pound of sulphate of iron 

 (copperas) and then add one ounce of sulphuric acid. Put the mixture into a 

 jug, from which it may be ueed as n^ded. To one quart of drinking water 

 add one tea-spoonful of ti>e solution It gives the water a rusty appearancf 

 amd a pungent tasle " 



