WITH 4200 HENS 155 



during our first siege laid more eggs per bird in their 

 second season than in the first, and during their second 

 season they were within a few eggs of equalling the 

 record of the next year's pullets. 



It should be kept in mind that what has been said 

 herein has reference especially to pox and canker run- 

 ning at the same time. We have never had one without 

 the other. From our observations we are not fearful of 

 pox as a separate disease. The writer believes it would 

 run its course in a short time without dosing and if the 

 birds are vigorous at the start and have been well cared 

 for that the mortality would be negligible. That it exerts 

 a harmful influence stands admitted, but in conjunction 

 with canker, if the canker is a separate disease, it is far 

 from harmless. The only deaths occurring during a run 

 of the trouble, the cause of which we have been able to 

 identify beyond question, have been due to the canker. 



Symptoms: Chicken Pox may be recognized by a 

 wart-like, pimply eruption on the comb, wattles, face, 

 and on the edges of the eyelids. In its earlier stages the 

 eruption is light colored and transparent, darkening as it 

 develops, and finally peeling oflf in a scale. We have had 

 cases where one or both eyelids were affected to the ex- 

 tent even of one eye being entirely closed and the other 

 almost entirely. If even the tiniest portion of one lid 

 remains uncovered so that the bird can find feed and 

 water, recovery may be made if the bird was in good 

 health and flesh at the start. 



Canker in some respects might be likened unto a can- 

 cerous growth, in consistency much like gristle. It may 

 form in the throat, usually on the rim of the opening 



