RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



crop and gizzard are empty, and if the feed of the night before is a light 

 one, so much the better. Two hours after giving the male fern, give a 

 light mash containing for each bird treated one teaspoonful castor oil. 



Dr. Hill states "in my opinion santonine, in one grain dose, combined 

 with seven grains of areca-nut, is the most useful and effectual poultry 

 vermifuge. 



"Food should be withheld for three hours after the administration of 

 worm medicine, and then a warm, soft meal should be allowed, and this diet 

 continued for a couple of days before returning to ordinary food. It is most 

 essential that all parasites expelled should be vigorously destroyed." 



A Specimen Three Feet Long 



A bottle of alcohol containing a tape worm three feet long which came 

 away from a Golden Wyandotte hen wis brought to the office of the Re- 

 liable Poultry Journal. The worm was complete, head and all. The hen in 

 question ate heartily, but lost flesh and gradually weakened. The owner 

 could not discover what was the matter with her. She had no cold, ate 

 well, but became distressingly poor and weak. Finally he thought of worms. 

 Acting on this theory, he kept her without food for thirty-six hours, then 

 gave her a fuU feed of stewed garlic, cut in short lengths. She ate heartily 

 of this and the next day the owner had the three-foot tape worm in alcohol. 

 The hen began to mend immediately, regaining her normal flesh, and was 

 soon as well as ever. 



THE CROP 



THE CAUSES AND TREATMENT OF ITS DISEASES 



DR. N. W. SANBORN 



Impaction of the crop is a condition known to many keepers of poultry. 

 This is caused by the retention and swelling of grain, by the accumulation 

 of long pieces of grass or hay, or by some obstruction at the outlet of the 

 crop. In rare instances it results from the damming of food from impaction 

 of the gizzard. Birds kept closely housed all winter are eager in the spring 

 time to eat the dead grass that has laid under the snow for months. This 

 ■ is quite tough a,nd is likely to give way near the ground, giving lengths from 

 two to five or more inches. By swallowing these in large numbers there is 

 .danger of the pieces rolling and matting together and forming a round ball 

 in the crop. There is also a source of danger in the scratching material fur- 

 nished, unless vegetable food is provided to satisfy the craving of the fowl. It 

 will get "filling" in some way, even though it eats its bedding of leaves and 

 straw. 



Cases of impaction caused by cracked corn have come to my attention. 

 Nearly grown cockerels fed at night a very full feed of cracked corn have 



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