1130 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



from the rest of the flock, and cleanse feed troughs and drink- 

 ing vessels before they are used for other fowls. 



Bumble-foot is a lump on the bottom of the foot, and is 

 usually caused by jumping from a high perch on to a hard floor. 

 When the lump appears to contain matter, cut it open, press 

 the matter out, wash the foot with warm castile soap suds, and 

 keep the fowl in a separate coop on a bed of straw until the 

 foot is well. To prevent this disease put the roosting perches 

 nearer the floor, or cover the floor with four or five inches of 

 dry earth, or else make a ladder for the use of the fowls. 



Diarrhoea among young chicks is caused by indigestion, 

 arising from weakness of the digestive organs, which is caused 

 by lack of gravel, and by improper food. Chicks that are fed 

 on proper food, and supplied with coarse sand, or gravel of a 

 suitable size, are never troubled with this form of diarrhoea. 

 Sometimes a cure can be effected in the early stages of this dis- 

 ease by giving a half teaspoonful of ca.stor oil at night, and the 

 next morning a small pill made of equal parts of powdered 

 chalk, rhubarb, and cayenne pepper, wet up with camphor 

 enough to mold into shape. A pill for a chick one or two weeks 

 old should be about half the size of a common pea. Skip a 

 morning and then give another pill, and so on until you have 

 given three. Give Douglass mixture in the drink every day 

 until the chicks are well. Feed cooked rice and stale bread 

 soaked in milk and seasoned with pepper. Older fowls are 

 sometimes attacked by this form of diarrhoea, and it proceeds 

 from the same causes. Give one of the pills (as large as a 

 common-sized pea) daily until the fowls show signs of improve- 

 ment. Give also plenty of burnt bone, food that is easily 

 digested, and the Douglass mixture once a day. Diarrhoea 

 sometimes becomes chronic, and for that I recommend the 

 hatchet. 



Frost Bites. Thaw by rubbing with snow or ice water ; 

 then bathe with camphor and afterwards with sweet oil. 



Crop-bound. When you see one of your fowls going 

 around with a crop that looks twice as big as it ought to, catch 

 her, and if the crop is hard arid swollen, you may conclude that 



