THE INTESTINES AND CROP 



For chicken cholera make a piU of this remedy about the size of a small 

 English pea and force the infected fowl to swallow it by forcing the mouth 

 wide open and dropping the pill into the throat. 



To use as a preventative of cholera, put one teaspoonful in feed enough. 

 for twelve hens and feed three times a week. It will not only prevent dis- 

 eases but will fatten them quickly and increase the egg production at least 

 50 per cent. 



For hog cholera give each adult hog one teaspoonful in slop or swill; 

 pigs half that amount. 



BOWEL TROUBLE IN SMALL CHICKS 



SIMPLE MEANS OF PREVENTING DIARRHOEA OR BOWEL 

 TROUBLE IN SMALL CHICKS AND THE BEST TREAT- 

 MENT FOR SAME WHEN IT MAKES ITS APPEARANCE 



P. T. WOOD, M. D. 



A BOWEL trouble in the form of diarrhoea or "white diarrhoea" 

 is one of the most common diseases of small chicks. Diarrhoeas 

 in small chicks are very similar to diarrhoeal diseases of children 

 and arise from similar causes. 

 During the past year or two several investigators have endeavored to 

 show that white diarrhoea and other diarrhoeas are more common among 

 incubator hatched and brooded chicks than those reared under hens. I have 

 carefully investigated this matter and do not find any ground for attributing 

 the cause of this trouble to the method of incubation employed whether 

 artificial or natural. 



In cases coming under my observation during the past several years 

 there have been proportionately quite as many cases of bowel trouble among 

 hen hatched chicks at the same season of the year as among brooder chicks. 

 Many investigators are misled in their observations in this regard owing 

 to the fact that such a very considerable portion of chicks are hatched in 

 incubators and reared in brooders nowadays as compared with those brought 

 up by the so-called natural method. Naturally a greater number of arti- 

 ficially reared chicks come under observation, and from this fact, their num- 

 bers make a deeper impression upon the observer, leading to hasty conclu- 

 sions as to the percentage of chicks affected with diarrhoea. Were it pos- 

 sible to obtain reliable statistics I feel sure that it would be demonstrated 

 that quite as great if not a greater percentage of hen-hatched chicks are lost 

 through diarrhoeal diseases than are brooder chicks. 



In the majority of cases diarrhoea in chicks is simply a case of acute 

 intestinal indigestion, dependent chiefly upon the inability of the intesti- 



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