FIRELESS BROODERS HAVE COME TO STAY 83 



after hatching, the digestive juice or whatever it may be called, 

 goes into the crop and gizzard to digest the new food and the yolk 

 of egg is left either to digest very slowly or not to digest at all. 

 In either case it will give diarrhoea and it may end fatally. ' 



I am often asked what to do for young chickens that have diar- 

 rhoea, and also for those that are "stuck up behind." I know how 

 almost hopeless these cases are, as they usually come from the un- 

 assimilated yolk of egg, but I reply that rice boiled in milk, adding 

 a tablespoonful of ground cinnamon to every pint of milk is about 

 the best remedy for diarrhoea that I have tried, and to pick off 

 with the fingers the dried excrement, slightly greasing the vent 

 with carbolated vaseline is the only way for "stuck up." If the 

 droppings are washed off, it is almost sure to chill the already 

 weakened bowels and result fatally. 



Incubators, To Disinfect 



Dr. Woods recommends that incubators be thoroughly scrubbed 

 with a solution of one gill of creolin in 8j4 quarts of water each 

 time before putting eggs in them, to prevent the chicks from con- 

 tracting white diarrhoea and other bowel troubles. The machine 

 should be thoroughly dried before putting the eggs in. Every part 

 should be scrubbed inside and out, and the egg trays should be 

 especially well done- If the eggs are also disinfected there is very 

 good reason to believe that the ravages of white diarrhoea will be 

 largely diminished. 



"TopEka," Mumford & Emerson's First Prize White Peymouth Rock. 



