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day following the day of Salts, this in turn followed by 

 the tonic. 



Should any of the birds show swelled faces or sore 

 eyes they are removed to the hospital yard. 



CHICKEN POX AND CANKER. We have found 

 nothing that will cure these diseases in combination, and 

 we have found nothing that will protect birds from it. It 

 is our experience that it will run through the whole flock, 

 once it starts, regardless of the measures taken to check 

 or prevent it. Our course has been different perhaps from 

 the ordinary in that we never make an experiment on 

 the whole flock — nothing can be learned in that way. 

 Previous to our last siege, when pox and canker were rife 

 in the country, we used a much-advertised remedy on two 

 divisions of our flock, as a tonic and preventive. These 

 divisions when attacked showed within reasonable de- 

 grees the same percentage affected and the same mor- 

 tality as did those divisions not given the preventive. And 

 one of these divisions was given the further special treat- 

 ment of a dampened mash in the evening, the "dope" 

 being used in the mash as well as in the drinking water. 



We have not tried vaccination. Poultrymen of experi- 

 ence and judgment who tried it a year or two ago reported 

 most unsatisfactory results, and while we have been un- 

 able to gain definite figures for comparison yet the in- 

 ference was that as many birds were lost, either as an 

 immediate result of the treatment or afterwards, as we 

 lost without it. We may try it some time ; but if we do 

 it will be on half the pullets from each hatch. 



At first signs of the trouble we give the whole flock, 

 not only the di\'ision in which it appears, but the whole 



