102 THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



for a week ; feed with soft food only, mixed with ale and chopped vegetables. 

 In all cases where the bird is attacked with this disease it should be separated 

 at once from the coop, and placed in a good dry, warm location, and not 

 allowed to mix with other fowls on any consideration. 



Scurvy Legs. Fowls that show any symptoms of this disease should at 

 once be removed from the pen and placed in warm, dry quarters. Give them 

 wholesome and animal food as often as once a day ; wash the legs with a 

 weak solution of sugar of lead in the morning, and anoint them with clean 

 lard, mixed with ointment of creosote in the evening, just before going to 

 roost. Don't, on any consideration, allow the fowls to be exposed to drench- 

 ing rains or roam in wet or even damp grass ; but keep them warm and as 

 quiet as possible until the disease disappears, which, if proper care is taken 

 of them, will result in from eight to ten days. 



To Exterminate Lice. There are almost as many remedies for ridding 

 the hennery of lice as there are breeds of fowls. We will in this connection 

 give a remedy which we have tried with success one- answering all purposes 

 desired. We will guarantee, if the directions are followed, it will extermi- 

 nate both the common hen louse and the minute hen spider, (the last named 

 being the worse of the two). Take all the hay from the nest and burn it. 

 Drive all the hens out. Get an iron pot or vessel of any kind, put it in the 

 center of the house ; shut the house as tight as it can be ; put in the pot a 

 pound of roll brimstone. Heat a piece of iron as large as a man's fist red 

 hot and put in the pot with the brimstone. Keep the house shut close two 

 hours, then open and ventilate. Sweep and dust out the house thoroughly. 

 Dissolve one pound of potash in one quart of hot water. With an old paint 

 brush paint or wash every part of the house, inside and out, roosts, nests and 

 every place that can be reached with the solution. Get, now, a quart of ker- 

 osene oil and go through the same operation, painting the whole inside of the 

 house, saturating the roosts well with it. There will not be a louse left when 

 these directions have been followed. It is some work to do it, but it will pay. 

 Put fresh hay in the nests and let the hens in. When they go on the nests 

 to lay, as soon as the nest is warm, if there are any lice on them the latter 

 will leave. They will be seen crawling around the front of the nest boxes; 

 but their lives are short ; they cannot endure this remedy and live. 



Vertigo. Fowls affected with this disease, BEMENT says, may be ob- 

 served to run round in a circle, or to flutter about with but partial control 

 over their muscular actions. The affection is one evidently caused by undue 

 determination of blood to the head, and is dependent on a full-blooded state 

 of the system. Holding the head of the fowl under a stream of cold water 

 for a short time immediately arrests the disease ; and a dose of any aperient, 

 cuch as calomel, jalap, or castor oil, removes the tendency to the complaint. 



White Comb Makes its appearance in the form of small white spots on 

 one or both sides of the comb, which are so thickly clustered together as to 



