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milk in which has been dissolved a level teaspoonful of baking soda 

 to every pint of milk, and also allowed plenty of crisp, tender lettuce 

 or similar greens. A little Epsom salts should be added to the drink- 

 ing water for a few days. This treatment, if resorted to at the start, 

 will be eflfectual, but if the poisoning has had its course long, nothing 

 will save the bird. 



Chicken Pox. 



My one and two-year-old fowls are getting scabby combs. It starts 

 with a round blackish spot and szvells into many spots, finallv nearly 

 covering one side of the comb. Sometimes accompanying this is the 

 closing of one eye, and later both eyes. 



The trouble is chicken pox, which is a very contagious disease. 

 A treatment which has been successful consists in bathing the sores 

 with strong salt and water and giving the fowls a mash containing 

 one teaspoonful of calcium sulphide for each 25 hens. With a large 

 flock of hens the method successfully employed bv one of the large 

 coast ranches in stamping out an epidemic of the disease was to place 

 a sulphur smudge, to which had been added a little carbolic acid, in 

 the poultry house after the fowls had gone to roost. This was allowed 

 to remain till the fowls began to sneeze, when it was instantlj' re- 

 moved. The affected fowls were also treated by dipping the heads in 

 a solution of permanganate of potash. 



Roup in Turkeys. 



My turkeys have a disease that is spreading rapidly. They commence 

 with a running at the nose, have swelling under the eyes which are filled 

 with pus. 



This is clearly a case of cold developing into roup. Get one 

 ounce of permanganate of potash and pour a quart of boiling water 

 over; after it is cold, bottle for use. Now take an old tin can, three 

 parts full of warm, not hot water, and drop in enough of the per- 

 manganate of potash to make it dark red. Hold the turk's head under 

 in this can until it needs breath then give it time to breathe, and dip 

 again. Press the fingers along the swollen parts towards the nostrils 

 and get out all the pus you can, then take a sewing-machine oil can 

 and fill it with a little of the mixture, and part olive oil, inject the 

 liquid up the nostrils and in the cleft of the mouth. Put a little of 

 the permanganate in the drinking water for all the flock. Make the 

 water a light red, later it will turn to a dirty brown, but don't mind 

 that. 



Disinfectants. 



What can I use to disinfect poultry belongings^ 



Sulphuric acid spray is good, but you will need to be very care- 

 ful that you do not get it on the hands or clothing. Get 16 ounces 

 sulphuric acid (SO per cent solution), water 6 gallons. Have the water 

 in a wooden tub or barrel and add the sulphuric acid to the water 

 very slowly, in order not to splash it on the flesh or clothes. But 



