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284. What to Do for White Diarrhea. Keep the hover and 

 run thoroughly clean. Disinfect once a week with a 4 per cent 

 solution of some standardized coal tar disinfectant dip. Give 

 the birds, in the drinking water, one thirty-grain tablet of 

 sulphocarbolate compound. Each thirty-grain tablet should con- 

 tain ten grains each of sulphocarbolate of sodium, sulphocar- 

 bolate of calcium, and sulphocarbolate of zinc. Fresh butter- 

 milk is an excellent remedy. 



285. Disposition of Chicks With White Diarrhea. All chicks 

 that die should be burned. Toe punch all chicks With diarrhea 

 and do not save them for breeders, but sell them for broilers 

 as soon as they are old enough. 



286. Contagious Diarrhea Occurring at About Ten Days of 

 Age. A contagious diarrhea, caused by an animal organism 

 called the coccidium tenellum, affects chicks later than the 

 bacillary white diarrhea described above and causes the greatest 

 death rate at from ten days to two weeks of age. The symptoms 

 are much the same as in white diarrhea and the treatment is 

 similar. 



287. Diarrhea of Adult Fowls. Adult fowls suffer most from 

 diarrhea due to contaminated water. Fowls may drink polluted 

 water from a contaminated pool or the water pans may be 

 allowed to become foul. 



288. What to Do for Diarrhea in Adult Fowls. Diarrhea of 

 adult fowls yields to the sulphocarbolate compound treatment 

 (284). The permanganate of potash treatment is cheap and is 

 very useful (129). 



289. Fowl Cholera. Fowl cholera is a contagious disease. It 

 is due to a germ. 



290. How to Tell Fowl Cholera. In severe forms of the dis- 

 ease, the first signs may pass unobserved and the bird be found 

 dead under the roost in the morning. If the disease is less 

 severe, the first sign will be dullness and moping about. The 

 bird will not eat; the feathers are ruffled. Thp bird becomes 



