CONTENTS 



SECTION I. PAGE 



Anatomt 15 



Review of the Anatomy of the Hen. 



SECTION II. 

 Sanitation 19 



SECTION III. 



EXTEBNAL PABASITES 35 



Lice of Birds — Lice of Chickens — Lice of Turkeys — 

 Lice of Ducks— Lice of Geese — Lice of Pigeons — Life 

 History of Lice — Effects of Louse Infestation — Dealing 

 With Louse Infestation — Scabies in Birds — Scaly Legs 

 — Sarcoptes Mutans — ^Air Sac Disease — Cytodites 

 Nudus — Chigger Infestation — Trombidium Holoseri — 

 ceum — Dermanyssus Gallinae — Fleas Affecting Birds — 

 Pulex Avium — Tick Infestation — Argus Miniatus — 

 The Bedbug of Poultry — Acanthia Inodora — Fungi Af- 

 fecting Birds — Thrush — Tinea Favosa — Pneumomyco- 

 sis. 



SECTION IV. 

 Intebnal Pabasites 59 



Important Round Worms — Ascaris Inflexa — Heter- 

 akis Papulosa — Spiroptera Hamulosa — Syngamus 

 Trachealis — Unimportant Round Worms — Heterakis 

 DifEerens — Heterakis Compressa — Trichosomum — Het- 

 erakis Maculosa — Tape Worms — Taenia Infundibuli- 

 formls — Davainea Tetragona — Thorn-Hea(led Worms — 

 Other Taenia — Echinorynchus Polymorphus — Flukes. 



SECTION V. 



Disease op the Digestive Tract 73 



Obstruction of the Beak — Stomatitis — Crop Bound — 

 Tympany of the Crop — Gangrene of the Crop-^Catarrh 

 of the Crop — Depraved Appetite — Fowl Cholera—^ 

 Blackhead— Diarrhea — White Diarrhea — Blastomyco- 

 sis of the Pigeon — Coccidiosis of Wild Ducks — Arseni- 

 cal Poisoning — Ptomain Poisoning— Corn Cockle Poi- 

 soning — Salt Poisoning — Cloacitis. 



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