232 DISEASES OF FOWLS. 



Buffered to run too long, better kill the fowl and put it out of its 

 misery, even if it cost $20. My remedy is as follows: 



Take the fowl and put it in a warm, dry place; wash the head and 

 throat with warm rain water and castile soap ; then take spirits of 

 turpentine and lard, mix well, and rub this mixture on the head and 

 throat thoi'oughly once a day, and be particular to clean the nostrils 

 well. I have found this remedy to be the best I have ever tried and 

 I have tried all that are in the different poultry books, without doing 

 any good. 



Mr. Melendy has given a very truthful description of this 

 disease, and his remedy is worthy of a trial, as he is a very 

 extensive breeder, and his opinion is entitled to respect. 



FEVER. This disease fowls are subject to at the period of 

 hatching. The remedy is light food, and some asperient med- 

 icine, such as castor oil, or burnt butter. 



LICE. There is nothing more destructive to the health and 

 prosperity of fowls, than lice. The best general preventive, is 

 to h?iVe a box some two to four feet square, and eight inches 

 high, placed under cover, and sunk half its depth in the ground ; 

 then lill it half full of fine, dry sand, mixed with an equal 

 quantity of wood ashes. The fowls will wallow in this, and 

 free themselves from lice. The following communication from 

 Mr. H. L. Devereaux, formerly of Boston, is a new and valuable 

 remedy : 



As to the vermin, we have found something, this past summer, 

 which, if not new, is at least good, and a sure remedy. I allude to 

 flour of Sulphur, My way of using it is this. I purchased from a 

 tin store, a dredging box, (such as all good housekeepers have to keep 

 flour in, with which to flour their meat,) filled it with the sulphur, and 

 then sprinkled it upon the fowls, under their wings, and also upon the 

 walking, roosting places, tfcc. For the Shanghae, we prefer flat strips 

 of board, say four to six inches wide, and where these are used, the 

 sulphur sprinkled upon them will effectually keep away the lice. 

 Plenty of quick or air-slacked lime is well to be freely used in the 

 houses. I will relate to you one instance of its good effect. Going 

 into my poultry house one morning, observing a sitting hen come off, 

 I noticed that she looked very pale, much more so than usual. At 

 once I knew the cause. Opening the lid of the box containing the 

 eggs, such a sight as presented itself the eggs literally covered with 

 lice. My dredging box was immediately put into requisition, and a 

 plentiful supply of sulphur sprinkled over them ; then taking the hen, 

 we gave her plenty under the wings, and under the feathers all over 

 her ; put her upon the eggs ; at first, she hesitated, but after a few 

 minutes, settled he'rself down upon the eggs, and at the end of her 

 time, she hatched out all but one or two of the eggs, and reared all 

 the chicks. Had I not observed her as I did. the lice would have 

 killed her. 



