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CHICKEN POX OR SORE HEAD. 



Symptoms. Little warts, nodules, or scabs form on the comb, 

 face and wattles. When one starts, usually several follow. The 

 disease is not necessarily fatal, but gives the bird an ugly appearance 

 and helps to bring down the general health. The disease is, contagious. 

 It is often started by birds brought into the flock, and is especially 

 noticeable in damp, cold weather in houses 

 which are not kept clean and dry or properly 

 ventilated. 



Treatment. The small nodules or scabs 

 should be removed with the fingers, simply 

 pulling the scab off. Take a camel's hair 

 brush or a clean feather and dip it in Germo 

 Poxine, made by the Germo Mfg. Co. of Se- 

 dalia, Mo., or dip it into undiluted zenoleum, 

 or creolin, and touch the sores lightly with 

 the feather or brush. Another scab will form 

 and in a few days drop off. Rub the face, 

 The head of a bird af- comb and wattles once each day with mentho- 



fected with a bad case , , 



of chicken pox. latum or menthol salve. 



LIVER DISEASES. 



Symptoms. Congestion and inflammation of the liver is usually 

 caused by too heavy feeding of a ration which is too rich in starch 

 elements. Feeding too much corn, blood meal, and so-called egg foods, 

 especially to birds which are housed and yarded in small lots, will 

 irritate both liver and egg organs. The first sign of the trouble is a 

 watery diarrhea, dark at first, but changing in a few days to a yellow- 

 ish color. The feathers are rough and dull and are inclined to stand 

 out on the birds. At first there may be a lack of color in comb and 

 wattles, but they usually change to a dark red or purple, and some- 

 times turn nearly black in color. The sick bird droops and moves 

 slowly about, and if sometimes the trouble is caused by over fat, the 

 birds may die on the nest or be found dead under the roost. 



Treatment. Stop feeding all heavy, starchy, fattening foods and 

 feed lightly for several days, and supply the fowls with a good deal 

 of cut clover, alfalfa or green food. As soon as any appearance of 

 the trouble is noticed, give each sick bird a tablespoonful of castor 

 oil. Be sure that your birds get plenty of exercise by providing 

 scratching material. It is a good idea to give your birds a dose of 

 Epsom salts in their mash food or drinking water at least once each 

 month. In case of a serious attack, after a good dose of castor oil 

 has been given the sick birds, follow it with one-fourth teaspoonful 

 of tincture of nux vomica to every pint of drinking water given the 

 birds. 



CHOLERA. 



Symptoms. There is no desire for food, but the bird is decidedly 

 thirsty and sluggish. The first discharge from the bowels is usually 

 thick, but as the bowels become empty the discharge gets less solid 

 and quite watery. As the inflammation of the bowels lining increases 



