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and pulverized sugar down the bird's throat. For drinking 

 use pure water sweetened with a little sugar. See that the 

 birds get two feeds a day while sick. One feed should consist 

 of stale bread moistened with milk, and the other feed should 

 consist of two parts of stale bread and one part of raw meat 

 put through a meat grinder. Give them all they will eat at 

 each meal. Keep your birds in a warm dry place, free from 

 draughts and treat them as explained above and in about ten 

 days they will be ready to go back to the breeding pen. 



CHICKEN POX. 



Chicken pox is a Southern disease and it is very seldom we 

 have it in the North. 



My first experience with it was five years ago. We showed 

 a string of birds at one of the southern shows and on their re- 

 turn home I placed them in their different yards on the farm 

 and in about ten days most of the whole flock broke out with 

 chicken pox. It was a week before I found out what was the 

 matter with them, for I had never seen a case of it before. By 

 that time it had gotten a good hold. I tried most everything 

 I could think of for the sores on face, head and comb, and 

 nothing I tried seemed to be able to check it. I then began 

 to doctor the blood and I soon wiped it out. I used the fol- 

 lowing treatment : 



I first cleaned the system good by giving them a dose of 

 salts. I then gave them sulphur in their mash for three days, 

 skipped three days, gave them another dose of salts and con- 

 tinued this treatment for nine days. I greased the sores with 

 vaseline in which I added a liberal amount of camphor gum. 



After I began giving this treatment, I could see an im- 

 provement every day, until the whole flock was cured, and I 

 have never had a case of it until right now. This bird was 



