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ate treatment should be as laid down for diarrhoea; but 

 earnest attention must be given to put the surroundings in 

 heahhy condition. 



If the feeding places and runs are kept free from the 

 germs, there is no drnger of the fowls ever becoming 

 affected. Of course this could be accomplished by a daily 

 sprinkling with a disinfectant, but this would be entirely too 

 expensive a method to be practical, even in large poultry 

 establishments. The most that we can expect is that when 

 cholera is in a section, the poultry owners will watch their 

 fowls, and, in case of sickness, at once remove the affected 

 birds from the flock. The feeding grounds and houses should 

 then be sprinkled with the following 



Disinfectant Mixture. 



Take Sulphuric acid, 8 ounces. 



Pure soft water, 8 gallons. 



Mix them. 



If this is done, the probability is that no more deaths 

 will occur until the contagion is again introduced from 

 abroad. 



There are many cases, however, in which the runs are 

 thoroughly infected, and remain so from year to year. 

 Under such circumstances, the poultry houses must be 

 carefully cleaned throughout, and the woodwork and 

 floors completely saturated wdth the disinfectant. Runs 

 must be fenced off for the fowls, and these inclosures thor- 

 oughly sprinkled. On a small scale, this may be done with 

 a watering pot, and on a larger one, w^ith a cask or barrel 

 mounted on wheels, as with street sprinklers. The disin- 

 fectant costs very little, even when several barrels of it are 

 made; it is entirely reliable, and, consequently, by pro- 

 ceeding in this way, poultry can be raised with the greatest 

 safety, as far as this disease is concerned. 



