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of each three parts ; flour, one part ; pulverized sulphur, two parts ; water, 

 quantity sufficient to mix well, and make into boluses of the size of a hazel- 

 nut, and give one three times a day." Cleanliness he claims to be essential 

 in all cases, and frequent bathing of the eyes and nostrils of the fowls with 

 warm milk and water. 



Chicken Cholera A. correspondent of the Department of Agriculture, 

 writing from Iowa, says : " My chickens have been dying with cholera for 

 the last two years, even turkeys have died of the same disease. When I 

 notice the fowls begin to droop and look sleepy, I give them three or four 

 tablespoonfuls of strong alum water, and repeat the same the next day. I 

 also mix their feed with strong alum water, feeding twice a day for two 

 or three days afterwards once a week. Since commencing this practice I 

 have not lost any." Another good cure is to give as feed cooked Indian 

 meaL red pepper, gunpowder and turpentine, mixed together. Put in a 

 day's feed, for a dozen fowls, a tablespoonful each of red pepper, gunpowder 

 and turpentine, well mixed through the meal. Give them this food every 

 other day for a week or so, and it will in most cases effect a cure. 

 Another remedy for this disease is to one gallon of water add one ounce 

 of bi-sulphate of soda ; set it where the fowls can drink it. As a preventive 

 it is necessary to have the roosting place for the fowls dry and clean ; the 

 place where they roost should be cleaned as often as once a week, and 

 sprinkled with lime or wood ashes. Feed with dry feed. 



Crop Sound Fowls. If the crop feels hard and stone-like to the touch, 

 it will be necessary to make an incision with a sharp knife through the skin 

 and upper part of the crop and loosen the unpacked mass by some blunt- 

 pointed instrument, and remove it. The incision, if small, may be left, but if 

 large, a stitch or two is advisable. The birds should then be fed warm, 

 soft food for two or three days, such as mush and potatoes, well mixed 

 with cayenne pepper and gentian ; give them plenty of exercise in the 

 open air, and they will rapidly recover from the disease. 



Curling in of the Toes of Fowls. Large fowls, such as Brahma or 

 Cochin China, and others, are subject to corns in the fleshy part of the foot. 

 These should be opened, the corn extracted, and the wound dressed with a 

 little Venice turpentine, spread on soft cotton or lint, and the foot bound up. 



Diphtheria Is a disease which originates mainly from improper care and 

 sudden changes of weather and variations of temperature. It affects fowls of 

 all a^es ; is either acute or chronic, sometimes beginning suddenly, at others 

 gradually, and seems a kind of lingering consumptive disease. It is also 

 occasioned by improper and damp coops and roosts. Fowls, to escape the 

 roup, catarrh, pip, gapes and similar diseases, should be fed on wholesome 

 food and placed in dry, well ventilated coops cleanliness proving a great 

 assistance to health. It makes its appearance in a way similar to the 

 croup in the human being. It fills up the windpipe at its opening with a 



