322 POULTRY BREEDING 
rice which has been ground and boiled to a thin paste, a 
half a pound of Spanish whiting and a pound of glue 
which has previously been disso!ved over a slow fire, and 
add 5 gallons of hot water to the mixture. Stir well, 
cover up to keep out dirt and let stand for five days. It 
should be put on hot. One pint of the mixture will cover 
a square yard if properly applied. Small brushes are 
best. There is nothing that compares with this for out- 
side or inside work, and it retains its brilliancy for years. 
Coloring may be put into it to make it any shade, Span- 
ish brown, yellow or clay color. For inside work in 
poultry houses add two pints of carbolic acid which 
makes it a fine disinfectant. 
WORMS, INTESTINAL.—The only certain way of 
telling whether fowls are infested with worms is finding 
the worms in the droppings. Where the worms are 
numerous they may cause death with symptoms so 
closely resembling other diseases that correct diagnosis 
is impossible. The following drugs will be found effica- 
cious in destroying intestinal worms: 
1. Isolate infested birds and destroy or disinfect their 
droppings while being treated. 2. Put 1 to 2 drams of 
copper sulphate in each gallon of drinking water for one 
week; or 3. Powdered pomegranate root bark (for tape- 
worms), followed by 2 or 3 teaspoonfuls of castor oil; or 
4, Oil of turpentine, 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls, followed in five 
or six hours with castor oil. 5. Powdered santonin in 5 
to 8-grain doses is especially good for round worms. 6. 
Chopped up pumpkin seeds for tapeworms. 
For worms in the air passages (gape worms among 
other kinds) use any of the following: 
1. Turpentine introduced into the windpipe by using a 
stripped feather; or 2. Steaming with creolin and tur- 
