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a regular supply and good variety of food. See that they 

 exercise sufficiently and have a healthy, vigorous appear- 

 ance. Use only sound stock for breeding, and try to 

 select a line of birds possessing superior qualifications. 

 This is the only way to handle poultry for success, and 

 such management will ward off nearly all diseases. 



Asthemia, or "going light," has symptoms like tuber- 

 culosis. If the owner of the flock is in doubt and cannot 

 get an expert's opinion it will be safe to give quarter- 

 grain doses of calomel three times a day in mash. In- 

 stead of this castor oil may be given three times a day in 

 tablespoonful doses. Two days of this treatment or a 

 week of the calomel treatment ought to suffice for clear- 

 ing out the bacteria, and afterward the food should be 

 more than ordinarily stimulating. 



Cholera is first detected by noticing yellow excrement. 

 This is a deadly infection and goes rapidly through a 

 flock. Birds with cholera have a high fever and become 

 thirsty. They soon become weak and in three or four 

 days expire. When cholera gets into a flock the first 

 move should be to separate the well from the sick. 

 Thoroughly disinfect all buildings. A pound of sulphuric 

 acid in fifty quarts of water makes a good disinfectant. 

 For medicine a tablespoonful of carbolic acid for each 

 quart of water in the drinking vessels may prove effica- 

 cious. For flocks of any size the following cholera 

 remedy should be procured as soon as possible after the 

 disease appears: One ounce capsicum, one ounce asa- 

 fetida, one ounce pulverized rhubarb, one ounce sulphur 

 and three ounces Spanish brown. Mix and place in an 

 air-tight can. Twice a day feed an ordinary warm mash 

 in which there is a teaspoonful of the mixture for every 

 quart of the food. 



When white diarrhoea appears the worst cases should 

 be killed and burned, any seemingly affected _ removed 

 from the well ones, the quarters cleaned and disinfected 



