342 Farm Poultry 



feeding, as a curative and a preventive, a pinch 

 of the following mixture for each fowl: 



Hyposulfite of soda 50 grams 



Salicylate of soda 50 " 



Pulverized yellow gentian 200 " 



Pulverized ginger 200 " 



Pulverized sulfate of iron 100 " 



"Give sulfate of iron in the drinking-water, 

 grams to a quart of water."* 



CHOLERA 



Dr. Salmon statesf that fowl cholera attacks 

 chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, pigeons, and in 

 fact all varieties of domesticated fowls. The 

 infection often takes place through drinking-water, 

 or partaking of food that is contaminated by the 

 excrement of sick birds. It is possible for fowls 

 to be infected through wounds or by means of 

 the germs which may be inhaled in the form of 

 dust. He further states that the disease is gen- 

 erally brought in by the introduction of infected 

 birds or with eggs that have been purchased for 

 hatching. This disease may be communicated 

 to mice and rabbits by inoculation. 



Symptoms. "The symptoms of American fowl 

 cholera were first described by Dr. Salmon in 



* "Journal D'Agriculture Pratique," 1895, Tome 2, pp. 913, 914. 

 f "The Diseases of Poultry," pp. 233, 234. 



