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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



Poultry Notes 



It is a waste of food to keep 

 young cockerels after they weigh 

 five pounds to the pair, as they 

 are sold as "old roosters" after 

 their combs grow. While the 

 market rate for old roosters is 

 from five to nine cents a pound, 

 young ones often sell at from 15 

 to 20 cents per pound. It is a 

 loss to keep them longer than 

 when they are old enough to sell. 



One part of cedar oil and two 

 parts of vaseline is an excellent 

 treatment for sore head. 



When hens become too fat the 

 result is apt to be egg bound, soft 

 and irregular shaped eggs, dizzi- 

 ness, apoplexy, liver complaint 

 and kindred diseases. 



It is claimed that mix vomica 

 is a specific for liver complaint 

 in fowls, if taken in time. The 

 dose is given in Homeopathic 

 form, allowing six pills three 

 times a day to a large fowl, and 

 less to a smaller one. 



feeding too much fatty food, com- 

 bined with a lack of exercise. In 

 the early stages the disease may 

 be arrested by feeding lightly on 

 bran mashes and green food, and 

 to each quart of drinking water 



adding one-half teaspoonful 

 muriate of ammonia. 



of 



The trap nest is a regular de- 

 tective. It tells the facts of the 

 It takes the hens, it gives 



case: 



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The following formula for roup 

 pills is recommended : Half a 

 dram each of cayenne pepper, 

 ginger, mustard ; half ounce of 

 plain vaseline or clear lard ; mix 

 thoroughly and add enough flour 

 to make a tough dough. Make 

 into pills the size of a pea. Dose, 

 one night and morning. 



The following is said to be the 

 recipe for making Vale's roup 

 pills, a popular English remedy: 

 Hydrastin, 2 grains; sulphate of 

 iron (dried) and sulphate of cop- 

 per, 3 grains of each ; powdered 

 capsicum, 12 grains; oil of copaiba, 

 20 drops ; Venetian turpentine 

 and calcined magnesia, of each 

 enough to make 24 pills. Dose 

 for adult fowls, one or two pills, 

 night and morning. 



Diseases of the liver are caused 

 by overfeeding of fat-producing 

 food or by the use of too much 

 spice or stimulating substances. 

 This particular trouble, is hyper- 

 trophy of the liver, which is an 

 enlargement of that organ, and 

 is often found in hens kept over 

 the second winter. It is due to 



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