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so certain in this climate; salts made by dissolving au oz. 

 in half a pint of water is more effective. 



lioup. This is the most serious of fowl diseases here 

 as in Europe. The early symptoms are loss of appetite 

 and drooping, then weak eyes and appearances of cold, 

 gatherings of matter about the nostrils and eyes. The 

 disease is highly contagious, being communicated through 

 disease germs issuing from the sickly beak contaminating 

 the drinking water ; therefore let all fowls affected by it 

 be at once put by themselves. Keep them warm, squeeze 

 out the matter from the nostrils, wash the beak with 

 Condy's fluid, add peppers or other spice to the feed, with 

 green stuff unlimited, and put in the water a little sulphate 

 of iron. Roup runs its course rapidly, and in a week the 

 bird will be either almost well or so nearly dead that it 

 had better be killed. 



" Fowl Cholera " comes on like a feverish cold, and, 

 like roup, quickly develops disease germs. Other symptoms 

 are thirst, debility, anxious nervous movements and 

 greenish droppings. The treatment is to isolate the patient 

 at once, giving a purgative dose, and adding spirit of 

 camphor to the food or drinking water. Should the patient 

 become worse, a few drops of camphor mixture, from 3 to 

 10, may be given twice daily with warm food. 



Cramp, Sore Eyes, Sore Heads. These are symptoms 

 mostly of the more serious diseases described. Isolate the 

 birds in warm pens, and try to bring up their vitality by 

 warmth, tonic drinks, and stimulating feed. Sores on the 

 head may develop from attacks by vermin. Washing with 

 Condy's fluid in warm water, carbolic or eucalyptus soap, 

 or the soda-resin-petroleum mixture the latter for 

 extreme cases only seldom fail as remedies. 



Crop Bound. A. serious, but easily detected ailment 

 of fowls. It is caused by some stoppage in the digestive 

 process carried on in the crop. The passage between 

 that part of the digestive apparatus and the gizzard, or 

 grinding stomach, is small, and may be choked by 

 something the bird may have swallowed, an onion skin, a bit 

 of rag, or other material. A m&re common cause is 

 feeding with wet cold, soggy, semi-cooked bran or pollard, 



