TREMA TODES OR FL UKES. C\ | 



One of the best tonicities is the extract of male 

 fern, about twenty drops of the liquid extract to a 

 large spoonful of sweet-oil. Nearly as good is pome- 

 granate-root bark ground to powder, a teaspoonful 

 with the food for every fifty birds. During this 

 curative treatment the birds should have little food 

 and water. What food is given should be of a soft 

 nature. It is best to starve the birds for at least five 

 or six hours previous to dosing them. 



The complete list of Cestodes will be found in the 

 tabulated list of Poultry Parasites at the end of this 

 work. 



One must take i cum grano salts ' most of the 

 statements found in books on Poultry re these parasites. 

 For instance, in one I find it stated that the fowl 

 tapeworm "appears to be identical with the tapeworm 

 found in cats (T. crassicollis) , and it is therefore 

 highly probable that it is derived from the same 

 source — that is, the fluke I of the liver of the 



mouse " Such statements are more than 



misleading, but so utterly absurd and incorrect as 

 to be almost amusing. 



B. Trematodes. Flukes. 



The Trematode worms or Flukes found in the 

 Fowl are six in number. One is found in the ese 



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(Distoma overturn), the others in the oesophagus and 

 intestines. 



The Fluke found in the oesophagus of the Fowl is 



