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cine 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 poultryman 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 appetite 

 on the part of the birds in a flock. The first definite symptom is 

 discoloration of the urates, or the tip of the excrement ; in health 

 the urates are white, 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 atti- 

 tude with roughened plumage, and seems asleep. The crop is 

 generally distended with food and the bird when aroused 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 



