the problem of furnishing winter heat without winter sluggishness. All this 

 is the secret of winter eggs,, and it is worth finding out. See CONKEY'S 

 LAYING TONIC, page 70. 



POISONING 



Through careless distribution of insect killers, salt brine, salt meat, lye, 

 fertilizers, copperas, phosphorus from matches, rough on rats, paint left in 

 old cans, Paris green, etc., many fowls meet death annually. It is necessary to 

 use the utmost precaution to prevent fowls from obtaining access to them. 



SYMPTOMS Trembling, convulsions, and drowsiness. The fowls seek, 

 a dark place and draw their heads into the body. As a rule, the cause of the 

 trouble is discovered too late to permit treatment. 



TREATMENT If the case is discovered immediately, try to empty 

 the crop. If you know or suspect the nature of the poison, an antidote 

 for same should be given. Where poison is due to salt, lye, or fertilizers 

 which contain nitrate of soda, give as drinks strong coffee, brandy, or 

 flaxseed tea, slippery elm or similar mucilaginous liquid. Where poison- 

 ing is due to copper, zinc, or lead, give white of egg in liberal quantities. 

 For phosphorous give magnesia and afterwards flax-seed tea. 



MOULD (Aspergillosis) 



This form of poisoning is occasioned by fowls inhaling, or otherwise 

 taking into their systems, mould which they obtain from mouldy food, or 

 from mouldy hay, straw, vegetables, etc. Some people believe that anything 

 is good enough for poultry and buy musty, burned wheat, etc. It is a costly 

 economy and, sooner or later, Mould will be the result. 



. SYMPTOMS It is indicated by lack of ambition, the fowl separating 

 itself from the others. The bird is sleepy and sits down from lack of 

 strength. There is usually some catarrh, with rattling in the throat, diffi- 

 cult breathing, and temperature above normal. There is frequently a fungus 

 growth on the membranes, holding the mouth open and something resembling 

 canker. . *- 



TREATMENT Practically nothing can be done. Birds dying from it 

 should be burned and the remains buried. Prevention is the best plan, bee 

 that nothing of a mouldy nature, either as a food or litter is placed with 

 their reach. Shake out and air all straw used for litter. Frequent spraying 

 of premises with CONKEY'S NOX-I-CIDE will be found of great value. 

 If you wish to try treatment, give strong coffee, brandy, or y 2 to 

 of Quinine several times a day. 



LIMBER NECK 



This is ptomaine poisoning and is a very fatal disease, demanding 

 immediate treatment. It can be easily cured in all early stages. 



CAUSE Limber Neck is caused by the fowls having access to, and 

 eating from, putrefying animal matter. If the premises are diligently 

 searched when this disease first makes its appearance, some dead animal, or 

 fowl will be found in a state of decomposition, upon which the birds have 

 been' feasting. The eating of maggots from such putrefying flesh may result 

 in the same disease. It might also possibly be due to intestinal worms, but 

 that is not frequent. 



SYMPTOMS The main symptom from which the disease gets its 

 name is the peculiar action of the neck, which is so limber that the bird can- 



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