1024 POULT EY. 



DIPHTHERIA. 



Cause. — Improper care and variations of weather and tempera- 

 ture. This disease is analogous to croup in the human being. 



Symptoms. — Ulcerous sores on the head, neck, face, tongue, and 

 throat. Very infectious and fatal, with offensive smell. 



Treatment. — Medicines mostly inoperative. Removing ulcerous 

 deposits with nitrate of silver, and swabbing with powdered borax, 

 is highly recommended. Place infected fowls apart from the others, 

 and give a third to half a teaspoonful of Epsom salts. Also — 



Carbolic acid 1 dr. 



Sulphurous acid 3 dr. 



Tinct. perchloride of iron J oz. 



Glycerine J oz. 



Use this instead of nitrate of silver as a similar dressing. Great 

 care should be taken with this disease, as it will occasionally choke 

 and kill the fowl. Dress all the sores morning and evening ; give 

 the best soft, unpeppered food, mixed with brandy and water. 

 About six hours after giving the salts, give the chemist's ordinary 

 chlorate of potassia and perchloride of iron, the doses one fourth the 

 ordinary size for adults. When the worst symptoms are alleviated, if 

 there is diarrhea or roup, prescribe for them. Dr. Wright says this 

 treatment will eyre two thirds of ordinary cases. 



EGG-BOVIVD. 



Cause. — Inability to lay on account of size of the egg. 



Symptoms. — Leaving nest without laying, wings hanging, irregu- 

 larity and frequency of going to the nest, evident distress. 



Treatment. — Inject olive or castor oil in the egg passage with a 

 syringe or with a feather. Do not assist the hen by pressure, and 

 do not fracture the egg. 



FEATHER-EATING. 



Treatment.— Dr. Wright says : " No unfailing specific has been 

 discovered. The most opposite remedies have answered in certain 

 cases. Giving raw meat daily has been known to stop it, and so has 

 leaving off meat ; giving purgatives to deplete the system, and tonics 

 to strengthen it, have both proved effective, while other cases have 

 baffled all the means tried. Cocks will stand to be pecked till 

 covered with blood without appearing to object in the least. One 

 e.ighth to one fourth of a grain of acetate of morphia daily, with a 

 grain of calomel twice a week, has the most marked success of any 

 treatment we know. Externally anoint with carbolated vaseline or 

 a very stiff lather of carbolic disinfecting soap, to nauseate the un- 

 natural taste of the fowl." 



