82 Hubbard's poultry secrets. 



making it bleed. Work in all the cuticura ointment you can 

 and leave it in the ear for a few days ; then you will find that 

 the canker is softened up so you can take the rest of it out. 

 Clean the ear very thoroughly, paint the canker with the tinc- 

 ture of iron and the bird will need no further treatment. 

 Never neglect canker for a bird is not fit to breed from that 

 has canker any more than a bird is fit to breed from that has 

 roup. 



CHOLERA OR DIARRHEA. 



I will not try to give you a cure for genuine chicken cholera 

 as I do not think there is any cure for it, although a great 

 many advertisers claim they have a cure for it. I have tried 

 a great many of the so-called cholera cures on birds that had 

 diarrhea and I have not found one of them that would even 

 cure that to say nothing about curing cholera. 



I have been breeding poultry a good many years but have 

 never seen a genuine case of chicken cholera but once. The 

 disease works very quickly ; I saw a bird in perfect health at 

 nine o'clock in the morning, and at five o'clock in the afternoon 

 of the same day the bird was dead. The following method of 

 treating diarrhea has saved many a valuable bird for me. 



In treating diarrhea, the first thing to do is to give the bird 

 a dose of physic at once, so as to carry off the cause. The bird 

 should be put in warm, dry quarters and food of every kind 

 should be kept away from the bird, as there is many a case of 

 diarrhea lost by not giving the stomach a rest when it is in 

 that weak condition. 



They should not be fed for at least three days. Their 

 nourishment should be given to them in the form of drink 

 prepared in the following way : 



Mix one cup of barley and one cup of whole rice with one 



