DISEASES OF POULTRY. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



ALTHOUGH poultry are no less liable to disorders than 

 cattle, or other domestic animals, but very little at- 

 tention has been paid to them, owing, no doubt, to the 

 small value of individual fowls, compared with sheep 

 or horses ; and frequently it is most economical to kill 

 them at once. These disorders, however, are far from 

 being devoid of interest, not only as sometimes leading 

 to correct views of the diseases of other animals, in- 

 cluding man himself; but so far as the saving of even 

 a few dimes, by curing them when that is possible, or 

 of rendering their eggs, or flesh, more wholesome and 

 palatable, as well as the humane motive of adding to 

 the comfort of the creatures, some attention to the 

 subject, more than it usually attracts, is surely de- 

 sirable. 



The following notices, though far from complete, 

 and, not improbably, requiring correction, in several 

 respects, will be found, it is presumed, as full and as 

 perfect as anything hitherto published in treatises 

 on poultry. But let me at once confess my ignorance 

 relative to the treatment of fowls laboring under their 

 various maladies. Their ailments have hitherto failed, 

 with, perhaps, few exceptions, to attract scientific ob- 



