36 DEPARTMENT OP 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 aminoniated, 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 judi- 

 cious feeding. 



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

 kill 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 dis- 

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

 sulphuric acid. 



No one who values his poultry should allow disease 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 accumu- 

 lations of their droppings upon a damp floor, intensified by confine- 

 ment in too close and contracted quarters. 



