CANKER 



This is an ulcerative catarrh of the mouth, which is often found in 

 connection with a bad case of roup or chicken pox (sorehead). It is a 

 common disease of pigeons, in some forms resembling Aspergillosis, 

 described on page 51. 



CAUSE Neglected cold or roup; in pigeons a common cause is too 

 constant feeding of corn, or use of dusty or musty grain or litter. See 

 Aspergillosis, often taken for canker. 



SYMPTOMS Difficulty in swallowing, with attempts to swallow as 

 though there were some grain or other substance lodged in the throat. 

 The nerk sometimes has the appearance of being stiff. White spots 

 ^<->near on the membrane of the mouth. In some cases there are cheesy 

 growths about the mouth, side of tongue, base of bill, and at times this 

 formation extends to the windpipe. 



TREATMENT When given according to directions, CONKEY'S 

 ROUP REMEDY is the most valuable remedy known for this disease. 



.TUBERCULOSIS 



Fortunately for the poultryman, this disease is not very common. Its 

 symptoms are so much the same as those of Consumption, and trie treatment 

 is so nearly identical that we will treat them as one in this article. 



SYMPTOMS Lack 9f life, emaciation with indications of indigestion 

 but there is in Tuberculosis a decided rise in temperature and, during the 

 last stages, violent diarrhoea. It is not possible to outline the symptoms so 

 surely that you can absolutely rely upon them in diagnosing the disease. It 

 is a germ ^ disease, and a bacteriologist only could give a definite opinion 

 after examination, but this is not possible or practical for many poultrymen. 

 A post mortem examination will usually reveal tubercules and nodules 

 throughout the liver and covering many of the internal membranes. When, 

 (however, you find any of the fowls "going light," as it is called, that is 

 showing rapid and extreme emaciation, with the above symptoms, take no 

 cnances, but kill them at once. 



(As the majority of cases of Going Light result from Tuberculosis, we 

 have used the term in this connection, but there are also cases of Going Light 

 from othen causes. Sometimes fowls with voracious appetites will go light 

 through a specific germ for which no remedy is known and others will 

 go light from indigestion which is not difficult of treatment, and such cases 

 without evidence of other symptoms, can be treated as for Indigestion.) 



CAUSE As stated before, Tuberculosis is a germ disease and is highly 

 contagious. It is usually communicated through contact with birds which 

 have it. Some maintain that it can be contracted from human beings, or 

 from cattle that are suffering from Tuberculosis. In any event it is best 

 to provide against such a possibility. There is no question but that 

 strong, vigorous stock are seldom troubled with it, and that maintaining 

 a high standard of health is the best known safeguard. 



TREATMENT Kill all which show any symptoms and burn and 

 bury the ashes. Remove the balance of the flock to new quarters and, 

 with a sprayer or sprinkling can, disinfect everything that the fowls have 

 come in contact with, using a solution of CONKEY'S NOX-I-CIDE, two 

 parts NOX-I-CIDE to one hundred of water. Go over houses, runs, roosts, 

 utensils, EVERYTHING, once a day for a while. Fowls can then go back 

 to old quarters. CONKEY'S POULTRY TONIC should be given in their 

 daily mash. If this were g ; ven occasionally as a tonic, there would be but 

 little cause for alarm over this trouble 



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