36 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GEORGIA. 



have resulted, the quickest way of getting matters right again is to 

 add a little lime to the drinking water." 



Whether the fowls occupy houses or trees as roosting places, the 

 droppings should be regularly collected at short intervals and kept 

 under shelter until needed. Since the solid and liquid parts of the 

 manure from fowls are united, it is highly ammoniated, and while it 

 furnishes an admirable application to the class of plants requiring a 

 liberal supply of nitrogen, it contains an excess of nitrogen for most 

 of our cultivated plants if used alone. It is therefore well to mix it 

 with an equal weight of superphosphate and a small quantity of kainit 

 thus producing a complete manure of superior merit. If cotton 

 seed are used for nests they form a valuable addition to the manure- 

 heap when discarded from the nests to make room for a fresh 

 supply. 



DISEASES. 



There are only a few diseases of fowls which need notice here. 



Prevention is the best policy, and this may easily be accomplished' 

 by using the necessary precautions as regards the use of disinfec- 

 tants and insecticides, with proper attention to cleanliness and 

 judicious feeding. 



If contagious diseases appear in the flock, the best policy is to kills 

 the diseased birds as soon as the character of the disease is ascer- 

 tained. 



The dead birds should be either burned or deeply buried at a* 

 distance from the run of the balance of the flock, and vigorous 

 measures at once adopted to perfectly disinfect the premises, re- 

 moving, if practicable, the well birds from the yard which the- 

 diseased birds have used, until thoroughly disinfected by the use of 

 sulphuric acid. . , 



No one who values his poultry should allow diseases to appear 

 among them. Its appearance is generally the result of criminal 

 neglect in the management of the flock. It often results from the 

 weakening effects of insect vermin where fowls are required to 

 roost, lay and sit, in neglected houses. 



It not unfrequently arises from the foul air produced by accu- 

 mulations of their droppings upon a damp floor, intensified by con_ 

 finement in too close and contracted quarters. 



