iS8 The Illustrated Book of Poultry. 



administering midway between each dose a tea-spoonful of brandy diluted with rather less than 

 its bulk of water, into which have been dropped five drops of M'Dougall's Fluid Carbolatc* 

 Recovery is generally as rapid as the attack. 



Whenever a case of true cholera occurs in a yard, ten drops of the fluid carbolate should be 

 added to every pint of water, the fountain kept cool, and plenty of shade provided. By these means, 

 with the free use of green food, its progress may almost always be effectually checked. 



Consumption.- — Years ago this disease was not so very uncommon among highly-bred fowls, 

 but lately has almost disappeared. The causes are damp or cold, want of light, or constitutional 

 debility. Wherever the cough of bronchitis appears to become chronic, with evident wasting and 

 loss of strength, this disease may be suspected. Cure is hopeless when set in ; but when any 

 danger of it is feared, from past experience with birds related, the regular administration of 

 " Parrish's Chemical Food," as advised for debility, f will offer the most probable means of protec- 

 tion. It is also very advisable to add cod liver oil to the meal food. 



" In broods of early hatched chickens it will often be noticed that one or more do not get 

 on. The face is shrunken, the wings droop, and the chick moves with a sort of hopping run on its 

 toes. These cases I believe to be of scrofulous origin — they are the weakly ones of the brood — • 

 best put out of their misery — but if treated at all, must be dealt with as ' consumptive.' — J. H." 



* The admirable preparation here referred to is a neutral solution of carbolate of lime, and sulphite of magnesia ; being 

 thus entirely free from corrosive or irritating effects, while at the same time combining most of the valuable properties of both 

 carbolic and sulphurous acids. 



f This admirable Syrup of Phosphates, to which we have already referred, is so valuable in many cases for highly-bred 

 chickens, that for the sake of those wlio m.iy desire to prepare it for themselves, we give the formula as stated by Mr. Parrisli 

 in the Ainciidxit Journal oj Pharmacy, Vol. XXIX., page 573. 



Protosulphate of Iron 10 drachms. 



Phosphate of .Soda ........ 12 drachms. 



Phosphate of Lime 12 drachms. 



Phosphoric Acid, Glacial 20 drachms. 



Carbonate of Soda ........ 2 scruples. 



Carbonate of Potassa ........ I drachm. 



Muriatic Acid ■) Each a sufficient 



Water of Ammonia . . .....* quantity. 



Powdered Cochineal 2 drachms. 



Water sufficient to make ....... 20 fluid ounces. 



Sugar 3 lbs. Troy. 



Oil of Orange ........ .10 minims. 



Dissolve tlic sulphate of iron in 2 ounces of boiling water, and the phosphate of soda in 4 ounces of boiling water. Mi.x the 

 solutions, and wash the precipitated phosphate of iron till the washings are tasteless. Dissolve the jihosphate of lime in 4 ounces 

 of boiling water, with sufficient muriatic acid to make a clear solution ; precipitate with water of ammonia, and wash the precipitate. 

 To the freshly-precipitated phosphates as thus prepared add the phosphoric acid, previously dissolved in the water. When 

 clear add the carbonates of soda and potash, and afterwards sufficient muriatic acid to dissolve the precipitate. Now add the 

 cochineal mixed with the sugar, apply heat, and when the syrup is formed, strain and flavour it. Each tea-spoonful contains about 

 I grain of plios|)hate of iron, and 2 J grains of phosphate of lime, with smaller proportions of the allcaline phosphates ; all in perfect 

 solution. 



Though rather a long process, there is no difficulty about it. A chemical friend adds, "I find that it require!' about 

 2| ounces of hydrochloric acid and 6 ounces of liquid ammonia to dissolve and precipitate the phosphate of lime. If I were 

 making it for my own use I should ount the cocliineal altogether; it is quite useless, and is inserted chiefly as a colouring agent; 

 and it only spoils, to my mind, what would otlierwist- be a very elegant preparation, as its addition causes so much extra trouble in 

 straining." The syrup when prepared should be put up in rather small bottles, as it is apt to "candy" when once exposed 

 to the air. 



