DISEASES AND PESTS OF FOWLS 
from drafts and in a warm place; dose 
with Epsom salts (see page 9) and give 
soft food, e. g., bread, bran, and middlings, 
with milk. Wine of ipecacuanha has been 
recommended for cases in which breathing 
is very difficult owing to excessive inflam- 
mation. 
BROODER PNEUMONIA 
A very serious disease, causing the death of many chickens 
Symptoms. Chickens affected stand by 
themselves with roughened plumage. 
There is a whitish diarrhea, and this disease 
can easily be mistaken for white diarrhea. 
(See page 92.) Post-mortem examination 
will show yellowish spots on the lungs, on 
the walls of the air sacs, and on the liver and 
other organs, due to infection by the asper- 
gillus fungus. (See page 29.) 
Cause. Infection by a species of the as- 
pergillus fungus, the spores of which are 
probably inhaled. This fungus is common. 
The spores may be in the straw used for 
nests or for litter, or in the food, especially 
if it is at all moldy. 
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