POULTRY DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT 
of piping of such a diameter and length that 
fowls cannot reach it. 
Salt. Food mixed with salt for other 
domestic animals may be accidentally given 
to fowls. Chickens are the most likely to 
be poisoned by excess of salt. 
Treatment. If fowls have eaten poison- 
ous substances, the fact is not usually dis- 
covered until after death or until it is too 
late to administer an antidote. Most of the 
poisons fowls are likely to eat act as irri- 
tants of the digestive tract. Milk and 
white of egg should be given. It is advis- 
able to give a stimulant, such as half a tea- 
spoonful of brandy. 
PYAMIA 
Not contagious, and not common 
Symptoms. This disease cannot be diag- 
nosed except by post-mortem examination 
and microscopic identification of pus-form- 
ing organisms in the infected areas (whitish 
spots) of liver, spleen, etc. 
Cause. Pus-forming organisms believed 
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