1124 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



There is no known " sure cure " for chicken cholera noth- 

 ing that can be depended upon to cure all, or even a majority 

 of the fowls affected. The best method of dealing with the 

 disease when it appears is the heroic course of treatment, and it 

 is substantially as follows : Kill all the sick fowls and bury them 

 deep with a quantity of quick-lime. Follow these funeral rites 

 with a general cleaning up and disinfecting of the whole premises. 

 Whitewash the house and scatter lime freely about the yards. 

 Wherever the sick fowls have left their droppings, wet the 

 earth freely with the disinfecting fluid recommended on another 

 page. Turn the fowls out of the house, shut it up as close as 

 possible, put a pound of sulphur in an iron kettle, pour on a 

 half pint of alcohol, set it inside the house where you can reach 

 it from the door, hold your nose with one hand, set fire to the 

 alcohol with the other, shut the door and run. The burning 

 sulphur and alcohol will send off sulphurous acid gas that will 

 will kill every thing that has life, cholera germs included. After 

 this fumigation use the disinfecting fluid daily about the house, 

 and all places that the fowls are in the habit of frequenting until 

 after the last trace of the disease has disappeared. 



Give the apparently well fowls something to kill the germs 

 that may have been taken into their systems, and for this pur- 

 pose there is nothing better than a solution of carbolic acid and 

 water. Sixty drops of water to one of acid forms a solution ; 

 give each fowl three or four drops of this solution daily for a 

 week; or, instead of giving it that way, add four or five drops 

 of the acid to a quart of water, and use it to mix their morn- 

 ing food with. Give plenty of willow charcoal, or if that be not 

 at hand feed charred corn once a day. In nine cases out of ten 

 this method will, if the work be thoroughly done, stamp out the 

 disease at the very outset, and with the loss of but few fowls. 

 In the tenth case keep right on with the killing, disinfecting, 

 and use of preventives ; it will finally conquer. 



For the benefit of those who may think it best to doctor the 

 sick fowls, I have selected the following as the best of a long 

 list of cholera cures. They are highly recommended, and will 

 without doubt effect some cures, provided the disease is in a 



