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weakness, much fever, great thirst and a rapid, weak 

 pulse. 



Treatment. Separate the sick from the well, and, if 

 you can do it, give every sick fowl a separate place. 

 Remove the whole flock to new quarters. If you cannot 

 do this, let there be a general house cleaning, white- 

 washing, fresh earth, nests oiled, vermin killed, house fu- 

 migated, runs spaded. 



Dr. Dickie in an article recommends the following 

 treatment: " Fowls that are too sick to eat should have 

 every four or five hours a pill made as follows: Blue 

 mass 60 grains, pulverized camphor 25 grains, cayenne 

 pepper 30 grains, pulverized rhubarb 48 grains, laudanum 

 60 drops ; mix and make into 20 pills. When they have 

 had time to act, give half a teaspoonful of castor oil 

 and ten drops of laudanum to each. Let them drink 

 scalded sour milk, with a gill of Douglass' Mixture (see 

 below) for every twenty-five head, a day. The treatment 

 ought to change the character of the evacuations and 

 make them darker and more solid. When this happens, 

 and not before, give them alum water or strong white 

 oak bark tea to drink, and no other drink." 



The following treatment has been tried with success : 

 Mix corn meal and wheat bran together, add cayenne 

 pepper, and enough kerosene oil to go through the whole 

 mass. Mix in proportions of about two heaping table- 

 spoonfuls of pepper and one pint of kerosene to two 

 pails full of the mixed meal and bran ; add boiling wa- 

 ter and stir thoroughly. Those fowls which do not eat 

 must be crammed with this food. Put cayenne pepper 

 and tincture of iron alternately into their drinking 



