HEAD, THROAT AND LUNGS 



of all diseases of the air passages, the most satisfactory way to get the medi- 

 cines where they will do the most good is through the use of an atomizer. 

 It will be good practice to buy one costing from fifty cents to one dollar. 

 The cheap ones are constantly getting out of order. 



When you find a bird sneezing, or notice a slight discharge from the 

 nostrils, spray all mucous surfaces you can reach with the following solu- 

 tion: Extract wiCch hazel four tablespoonfuls, liquid carbolic acid three 

 drops, water two tablespoonfuls. Do this twice a day, squeezing the bulb 

 five times for each nostril and twice for the mouth. The sick fowls should 

 be kept from the others to avoid spreading the disease. After removing 

 the sick fowls, give the drinking and feed dishes a careful washing in as 

 hot water as can be used, cleaning the pens as thoroughly as possible. If 

 the dishes are of iron or tin a baking in an oven will destroy all germs. If 

 the disease has progressed to the stage of swelled-head and thick discharge, 

 and the bird has a sluggish walk, add one part "Piatt's Chlorides" to five 

 of rain water, and bathe head thoroughly with the solution, seeing that some 

 of it gets into the nostrils and throat. Some of the cases of five years ago 

 used to get well under what was called the "coal oil treatment". This 

 consisted of pouring on the surface of a pail of water about a gill of kerosene 

 oil, which floated on the surface; the swelled head birds were taken one by 

 one and slowly dipped, so the heads were under the surface, and held while 

 "'one — two — three" was slowly repeated, and then raised, the necks and heads 

 being wiped. I remember seeing twenty cockerels, so thick that the dis 

 charge was thick and bad smelling, receive this treatment twice a day for 

 two days, being obliged to take all drink from dishes that had a film of the 

 oil always floating on the top, and come up out of the severe stage, improv- 

 ing from day to day, finally beiug sold to the butcher in nice condition. 



A friend of mine who has been a breeder of poultry for twenty years 

 insists that the oil treatment is the surest of any yet tried by him, and he 

 has bought and used many of those advertised in the years before he began 

 to use kerosene. He says he never was satisfied until he depended on the 

 oil. This friend has never used what I am now sure is the coming remedy, 

 and that is peroxide of hydrogen. This is "death to germs." It is a liquid 

 'coming in strong bottles, tightly corked, and needs to be diluted with from 

 three to six parts of water. There is a good preparation of this known as 

 "Hydrozone," that is often to be found at drug stores, that should be di- 

 luted (vith from five to eight parts of water. This solution applied to the 

 diseased surfaces at once begins to foam, and sho'.ild be repeated until there 

 is no more bubbling. A little of the solution forced into the nostrils by the 

 use of a dropping tube from the force of the foaming is driven higher up 

 into the nostrils, reaching parts otherwise out of thuch. The worse the case 

 the stronger should be the solution, and the longer it must be used. The 

 diet in roup should be simple. Green food if possible should be within 

 reach, and all mashes should have at least one-third clover. The place of 

 detention I should be dry 'Jand sunnyr Drinking water should be changed 

 twice a day. 



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