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MRS. BASLEY'S WESTERN POULTRY BOOK 



telling me they have cured their turkeys by my directions, so I will 

 repeat them again for the benefit of newcomers. 



First, liver complaint comes from wrong feeding, or overfeed- 

 ing, which has overworked the liver; secondly, Blackhead comes 

 from a parasite; thirdly, the symptoms of both diseases are almost 

 exactly the same in the first stages. Dr. Cushman, in discussing 

 this matter, decided that when the bright yellow diarrhoea comes 

 on, showing liver trouble, the remedy is "something bitter and 

 something sour." This is easy to remember. He also recommends 

 no food but green food and says that turkeys have been known to 

 cure themselves by living on acorns. 



My remedy is first a liver pill followed by quinine for a week, 

 and sour milk and no food but onions and green alfalfa or grass, 

 keeping this up until cured. 



I have a letter from a successful turkey raiser of Long Beach 

 near Los Angeles. She writes : "I wish to tell you my experience 

 with liver sick turkeys. I had a gobbler weighing eighteen or 

 twenty pounds, and I made the mistake so many do of allowing 

 turkeys and chickens to run together; my experience is that tur- 

 keys, especially toms, will not stand such quantities of food that 

 hens do- Well, he got very sick, so bad he was as light as a feather, 

 and my cure, which never fails — was administered — a bottle of Ja- 

 maica ginger and a bottle of liquozone were procured. I put him in 

 a clean, large coop and he lay on a bed of straw for days, so weak 

 he could not stand. The first day I gave him one teaspoonful of the 

 ginger and one teaspoonful of the liquozone mixed and diluted until 

 it was not too strong, giving two or three spoons every hour of the 

 diluted. The next day giving it three times a day ; after that twice 

 a day. I did not allow him anything to eat, but of an evening gave 

 him the smallest sized capsule of quinine. Kept that up until he 



First, Second and Third Prize White Holland Turkeys, Mrs. W. D. Root, 



GlEndale, Cal. 



