POULTRY AND LARGE BIRDS. 401 
WHITE-COMB AND SCURFY SKIN. 
When fowls, especially Cochins, are kept in small, unhealthy quarters, 
or are deprived of fresh green food, a whitish, dust-like scurf sometimes 
appears at the bottom of the comb, afterward covers all of it, and then ex- 
tends over the wattles and neck. The feathers on the affected parts lose 
their web, the bare quill being left, and it may in tum drop off, the fowl 
dying in extreme cases. The disorder is contagious. After recovery, the 
feathers will come off at the next moulting season. 
TREATMENT.—Remove the exciting causes mentioned above, in the 
diet and location. Apply Stoddard’s Poultry Ointment, or a mixture of 
tar and sulphur. Good authority claims that turmeric has a special efficacy; 
it may be used in an ointment made of one-quarter of an ounce of turmeric 
and one ounce of cocoanut oil. If lard be substituted for the cocoanut oil, 
as it may be, the ointment should be made fresh for every application, and 
should be occasionally removed thoroughly from the affected parts. Give 
internally ten to forty drops of castor oil, according to the age, with a tea- 
spoonful of powdered sulphur in the food. Remove the affected fowls to 
prevent contagion. 
A scurf resulting from the same causes as white-comb may appear 
about the face, comb and neck, perhaps in the form of dry, bony scales, 
but without the distinctive features of the disease last treated. The meas- 
ures given for white-comb are, however, to be adopted. Do not confound 
this with roup or chicken-pox because of the similar symptoms. 
BLACK-ROT. 
In consequence of indigestion, lack of variety in the feed, want of exer- 
cise or of green food, the comb may turn black, the feet and legs swell, and 
general loss of flesh take place. The malady is known as black-rot, and 
probably occurs oftenest in Spanish fowls. 
TREATMENT.—This is useless except in the early stages. Give then 
a light dose of castor oil, following with warm, nourishing food and some 
such simple tonic as rusty nails in the drink, or tincture of iron. Observe 
the general directions given for Indigestion. 
MOTTLED FACE AND EARS. 
Red spots sometimes appear on the face of black Spanish fowls, and 
on the ear-lobes of Leghorns and similar breeds. The keeping of the sexes 
together is the cause, and their separation the cure and prevention. Sweet 
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