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nninfected birds from the tainted ground, which should he 

 disinfected with quicklime, or atill better, gaslime, and well 

 turned over. Every infected fowl should be at once taken 

 away and destroyed, and the body burnt, n(_)t thrown on the 

 ground, where the geians of the disease (bacilli) can spread. 

 There should be no attempt at treatment even of the most 

 valuable birds, and no cliickens should be reared nor fresh 

 stock placed on the tainted soil. 



Some time since I received with a dead pheasant the 

 inllowmg letter, showing how readily this f;ital epidemic ma\- 

 spread from an overcrowded poultry run into the coverts. 

 The writer says : 



"I am sending you with this a, young pheasant which has 

 been attacked with a disease that has unfortunately destro\'e(l 

 ii large number of Ijird.s which were ])laced in the Avoods in a 

 jierfectly healthy condition. It is the goueral opinion that 

 the liirds have been affected by a ])oultry farm which is on 

 the estate, as the fowls were known to be dying iu large 

 ijuantities from a similar disease." 



(.)n examination I found this bird affected with everv 

 symptom of fowl enteritis. The intestines showed redness in 

 the mucous membrane, in the c;Bcal appemlages there was a 

 great amount of nnicus, the spleen and liver were enlarged, 

 and there is no doubt that the bacteria, or microbes causing 

 the disease, could have been cultivated if it had been thought 

 necessary to do so. Thei-e cannot lie the slightest doubt that 

 the disease affecting these pheasants was contracted from 

 the fowls on the poultry farm on the estate, where tliey were 

 dj'ing in large uumbei's. The writer asks for a remedy. 

 The researches of JJr. Klein, and the experience of those who 

 have endcav'oured to rear large numbers of pheasants or 

 poultry (jLi tainted ground, point to but one course, the 

 destruction of the affected birds ; and as it would be ini- 

 possiljle to destroy the bacilli in the tainted ground, over a 

 large extent of covert, tlie rearing of pheasants should only 

 take place on fresh and untainted ground the following year. 



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