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ens which weigh from three to five pounds. 
The symptoms of the disease are a yellowish, 
watery discharge, or at least some peculiarly 
colored discharge, and a rapid emaciation, 
followed by apparent leg weakness. 
Coccidiosis in its true form is a germ 
disease for which there has been developed 
as yet no positive cure, though some experi- 
ment stations are working on a vaccine that 
promises well. It has been the author’s 
experience that the best method of handling 
this disease is to take all the mash away from 
the affected birds, giving them all the sour 
skim milk or buttermilk they will drink. 
After two or three days of starvation feed 
them all the scratch feed they will clean up 
readily. Further, the birds should be re- 
moved from the range on which they had 
been kept and placed on a new, thin-sodded 
range. The old range should be treated 
with a heavy coat of lime, should be plowed 
and reseeded., If this treatment is used the 
disease should not recur the following season. 
If the feeding has been at fault a similar 
trouble is likely to develop. If the birds 
have been obliged to eat too great an amount 
