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can be made. Milk which is soured by the Bulgaricus 

 bacillus of Metchnikoff possesses no distinct advantages 

 over naturally soured milk ; on the other hand, it has several 

 disadvantages. Its method of preparation involves consider- 

 able time and care, and it is not relished by chicks to the 

 same extent as naturally soured milk." 



Other remedies have been proposed for this disease but 

 most of them appear to have but little value. Kaupp ^ 

 recommends a sulphocarbolate treatment as follows : To 

 each gallon of drinking water he dissolves one 30-grain 

 tablet sulphocarbolate compound of zinc, sodium and 

 calcium, 6 grains of bichloride of mercury and 3 grains of 

 citric acid. With this mixture he reports good results. 

 Horton ^ at the Oregon Experiment Station used this 

 treatment on 50 infected chicks of which only seven sur- 

 vived. He says: "From the manner in which the 

 chicks died off and from the general appearance of the 

 seven that remained alive it seems evident that sulphocar- 

 bolates in the treatment of white diarrhea (bacillary form) 

 have very little if any efficiency." 



1 Kaupp, B. F., "Some Poultry Diseases." Colo. Agr. Expt. 

 Stat. Bui. 185, 1912. 



2 Horton, G. D., " Sulphooarbolates in the Treatment of White 

 Diarrhea (bacillary form) of Young Chicks." Amer. Vet. Rev., 

 Vol. 46, pp. 321-322, 1914. 



