464 POULTRY. 



If eggs are expected during the winter, they must be provided 



for in October. Dispose of the old hens ; select as many of the best 

 young pullets, and feed them well. Give wheat soaked in hot water 

 once a day. Barley, buckwheat and corn, in equal proportions, 

 may make the rest of the food ; chopped cabbages will help. Pro- 

 vide clean quarters, plenty of water, gravel, old mortar and char- 

 coal. Make the house warm ; do not crowd too many into it, and 

 a good supply of eggs will result. 



— Insist on having eggs. Warm, clean quarters, cooked grain 

 and potatoes, scraps of meat, powdered bones or lime, gravel, 

 ashes and warm water, are the convincing arguments. 



Feed scraps of meat or pounded bones frequently in winter. 



Give warm, light quarters, and dry ashes to dust themselves with, 

 fresh water (but warm) daily, and keep the water and feed vessels 

 scrupulously clean. Thus avoid diseases among poultry, and get 

 plenty of eggs. 



— Fill a box before the snow covers the ground with a bushel or 

 two of clean gravel ; but if this cannot be found, pound up some 

 large stones — best sandstones. 



Care of Poultry. — Roup. — If hens seem to have cold in the 

 head, what is the matter, and how can I cure them ? 



It is roup. Remove the dry discharge from the eyes and nose, 

 and wash them morning and evening with water and vinegar, about 

 half and half. 



Pip. — What will cure pip in hens ? 



Pip is caused by exposure to damp or wet weather. The symp- 

 toms are a short, quick, spasmodic cough resembling a chirp, with 

 a stoppage of the nostrils, compelling the fowl to respire through 

 the mouth. It is not considered a disease in itself, but is a symp- 

 tom, and if not attended to and checked will result in catarrh, and 

 oftentimes end in roup. Remove the bird to a dry, warm place, 

 wash out the mouth and nostrils with a weak solution of chlorinated 

 soda, and mix cayenne pepper with the food. 



A Cure for Chicken Cholera.— On^ of the greatest afflictions 

 in the poultr>^-yard is chicken cholera, and when once the disease 

 gets a foothold, unless some prompt measures are taken to prevent 

 its spread, the consequences are often disastrous. The following is 

 a specific for this disease ; 



Cayenne pepper, 2 parts, 

 Prepared chalk, 2 parts, 



Pulverized gentian, i part. 

 Pulverized charcoal, i part. 



Take the parts by measurement, not by weight. Mix all with lard 

 or mutton suet to a consistency suitable to be made into pills, and 



