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medicine according to directions. In purchasing a remedy 

 select one that can be administered in the food or water, and 

 do not bother with pills or powders that you have to give to 

 the individual bird. 



CHOLERA. 



Next to roup the most serious disease that the poultry man 

 is called upon to combat is cholera. Cholera would be even 

 more serious than roup were it as common. It is a disease of 

 damp, hot weather, and disappears quickly in a dry time or 

 upon the approach of frost. Like roup cholera is transmitted 

 by means of germs, and it affects not only the domestic fowls 

 but some of the wild birds as well. 



Approach of cholera is generally heralded by loss of appe- 

 tite on the part of the birds in a flock. The first definite symp- 

 tom is discoloration of the urates, but in cholera the urates are 

 at first yellow, changing as the disease progresses to green. 

 Diarrhoea sets in. The bird separates itself from the rest 

 stands in a dejected attitude with roughened plumage, and 

 seems asleep. The crop is extremely thirsty. Great weakness 

 follows, and in a short time the bird dies. 



No satisfactory remedy for cholera has been discovered. 

 Remove the infected birds to a place by themselves, and when 

 one dies burn the body or bury it so deep that dogs or foxes 

 cannot dig it up. Thoroughly clean up the house and yards, 

 and bury the excrement. Sprinkle the floor and yards with a 

 solution made of one pint carbolic acid and three gallons warm 

 water, applied with a common watering pot. 



DISEASES OF THE LIVER. 



Nine-tenths of the diseases that afflict laying stock come 

 from derangements of the digestive organs and of the liver. In 

 order to get eggs it is necessary to feed highly, and this reacts 

 upon the health. The poultryman must expect every now. and 

 then to lose a hen. Fortunately the value of the individual 

 hen is not great, and he must not be disheartened if he finds 

 one dead from time to time. When hens begin to drop off 

 as they will in the spring the poultryman must immediately 

 begin to revise his methods. He must feed a less stimulating 

 ration, give more green food, and compel his hens to take 

 exercise. A teaspoonful of sulphate magnesia to each pint 

 drinking water, given for a week, then followed for a month 



