DISEASES OF POULTRY. 



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Feed regularly, often, and a small quantity at a time. 

 Give some cooked food, with barley water or milk for 

 drink, or put twenty grains of bicarbonate of soda to 

 a quart of drinking water. In severe cases, give two 

 grains sub nitrate of bismuth three times a day in 

 a teaspoonful of water. Counteract constipation with 

 Epsom salts (twenty grains) or castor oil (one tea- 

 spoonful) once a day as long as may be necessary. 

 Let the fowls run on young grass with plenty of range. 

 In case the disease is due to poisoning or to sharp 

 objects imbedded in the stomach, it generally ends 

 fatally before its nature is discovered. 



