DISEASES OF POULTRY. 187 
comes condensed into hard, cheesy matter. When dis- 
covered, while the pus is in liquid form, if the skin be 
opened with a knife, the pus-cavity well syringed out 
with carbolic acid and water, the place kept open by 
poulticing for a day or two, it heals up. The same 
trouble sometimes attacks the shank; in such a case 
open the sack at the bottom and top, and syringe the 
cavity from the top to the bottom a couple of times; 
then use strong liniment on the shank, and it will all 
heal up. When the case is of so long standing that the 
pus becomes hard and cheesy, the only way is to lay the 
whole thing open, making an opening large enough to 
press the core out; then poultice and use the carbolic 
acid and water baths, finally winding up with a strong 
liniment. : 
DEFENSE AGAINST DISEASE. 
If cared for, and they have clean, wholesome quarters 
and not crowded, poultry will always be healthy. If a 
fowl merely acts a little “cranky,” do not imagine that 
it is sick, and commence stuffing it with drugs; simply 
remove it to a pen some distance from the flock, and lct 
it alone a fewdays. Ifit proves to be very sick, chop off 
its head and burnit. For cholera, a strong solution of 
hyposulphite of soda, given three times a day, in tea- 
spoonful doses, is probasly the best remedy we have. 
For gapes, dip a feather in turpentine, and insert it 
into the windpipe. One application will generally cure; 
two are sometimes necessary. Dip scaly legs in kero- 
sene two or three times. A little sulphur mixed with 
the food once a weck in winter prevents packing of the 
crop and irregularities of the bowels, caused by over- 
eating and the constant production of eggs. Gravel and 
