the producing of the egg yield. It is economical and takes 

 the place of any and all methods of eliminating worms from 

 poultry flocks by the use of tobacco, vermifuge, and other 

 concoctions and emulsions sold for such purposes. One pint 

 of turpentine which costs you only about 40c will treat about 

 500 birds twice. This should not be fed, however, to chick- 

 ens under ten weeks old. 



FRICK'S REMEDY AND TONIC FOR CHICKEN POX 

 (BIRD POX) 



Ten pounds of Dairy Salt, 2*^ pounds ground Jamaica 

 Ginger, 10 pounds Flour of Sulphur, 6 pounds Baking Soda, 

 2 pounds Carbonate of Magnesia, 10 pounds Sodium (pulver- 

 ized nitrate, 10 pounds powdered Copperas (Iron Sul- 

 phates), 10 pounds Epsom Salts, 50 pounds Charcoal (fine), 

 50 pounds fine ground bone, granulated. 



The charcoal may be omitted if desired; the manner of 

 treatment with the above remedy is, in the event of a 

 threatened outbreak of the disease, mix 5 pounds in 200 

 pounds of dry mash, or to make them eat it better, make it 

 a crumbly mash. In the event that a flock has it or rather 

 gets it, feed: First feed for 500 hens, 20 pounds in 200 

 pounds of mash : Second Feed, 15 pounds in 200 pounds of 

 mash for 500 hens. Then feed 6 pounds in 200 pounds of 

 mash for 500 hens. By this time the disease should have 

 disappeared, these feeds fed in rotation. 



One thing must be understood, that disinfecting runs, 

 houses, etc., keeping drinking vessels filled with clean water, 

 is necessary. Paint the pox with Pearson's Creolin or tinc- 

 ture of iron. 



W. C. DE LAPP'S SPECIAL REMEDY 



FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CHICKEN 



POX (BIRD POX), DIPHTHERITIC ROUP 



AND CANKER COMBINED 



In the first place, Chickenpox, and all kindred diseases 

 are in the atmosphere, and are carried by the wind, as well 

 as on the clothing and shoes of persons entering a poultry 

 plant. It may be, and is sometimes carried by grain sacks 

 which have been on the ranches where birds are afliicted 

 with the disease, also it may be introduced by the bringing 



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