THE INTESTINES AND CROP 



juice is prepared by half cooking steak, squeezing the liquid out and adding 

 a little salt and pepper. 



The treatment of cholera is not satisfactory in results. If you suc- 

 ceed in curing more than one-half your birds, you may well doubt the pre- 

 sence of that disease, and may make up your mind that the trouble is simple 

 diarrhoea, enteritis or indigestion. 



The successful plan of handling cholera is prevention, rather than the 

 time and labor needed to doctor sick birds. 



DYSENTERY 



This may be a neglected diarrhoea running on into deep inflamma- 

 tion, or it may be a disease of itself originating from some filthy condition 

 of the poultry plant. It may be from wrong ideas of what is needed to 

 keep healthy birds, or from allowing the disease to be introduced through 

 outside birds. Filthy water or foul floors are likely to spread dysentery, 

 if indeed, they are not the direct cause of it. Dysentery is always accom- 

 panied by a looseness of the bowels. The discharge is thin, often watery, 

 with more or less blood, according to the severity of the disease. The bird 

 early shows weakness of the muscular system, and is soon "off its feed." 



This disease is not highly infectious, but there is much danger if the 

 plant is not well cleaned up at the very beginning of the outbreak. There 

 is danger enough to call for the division of the flock into well and sick birds. 

 The disease seems to spread by means of the droppings. 



All suspected, as well as ail decidedly sick birds, should have an intes- 

 tinal disinfectant given in the drinldng water. Here we find another use 

 for the sulpho-carbolate of zinc, or for a combination of the sulpho-carbo- 

 late of zinc, soda and hme. One ounce of the zinc, or of the combination, 

 added to two quarts of boiled water, should be the only drink for four days. 

 The best results will be obtained by placing this drink before the birds, for 

 ten minutes at a time, soon before feeding, four times a day. If the dis- 

 charge is decidedly bloody, a pill of Dover's Powder of one grain can be ad- 

 ministered in a little mash twice a day. If there seems to be much pain, 

 give three doses of Dover's Powder per day. 



The diet of all the birds, sick and well, ought to be non-irritating for 

 a few days. Feed lightly of the coarsest parts of wheat, giving middlings 

 rather than bran, making at least one-third the mash of clover hay thor- 

 oughly cooked. Feed wheat rather than corn for a week, supplsang grit 

 in abundance. 



GASTRITIS 



Gastritis is a disease of the enlargement of the food passage just be- 

 fore it reaches the gizzard. It seldom is met except in connection with 

 inflammation of the crop. The same cause of irritation works in both 

 cases. Long continued over-feeding or the over use of spice, or the ill ef- 

 fects of the taking in of some poison, are behind gastritis. The mucous 

 lining is red, over moist and the blood vessels large. The symptoms are 

 those of indigestion — lack of appetite, diarrhoea one day and constipa- 



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