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The important thing here is boiled rice and rice 

 water to correct a diarrhea in fowls. Sometimes 

 the bowels are loose, though illness does not appear 

 if the diarrhea is promptly checked. 



A germ was found in my case which suggested 

 cholera very strongly, and this was probably the 

 disease. The rice could hardly be supposed to cure 

 this, but it did provide just the right help at the 

 right time for those birds that were making a good 

 fight for life. 



Chief Causes of Death. — In the last contest at 

 Storrs, Conn., a careful record of deaths was kept, 

 and the causes. More than ten per cent, of the 

 hens died during the year. This is a greater aver- 

 age than should bccvu: in your home yard, but 

 these hens are under a great strain, and many were 

 probably bred from stock noted more for eggs than 

 strength. 



Very few of these hens die from troubles that 

 could have been cured. More than half die from 

 ruptures, broken eggs in oviduct, liver trouble, 

 and illness beyond help in most cases. Only a few 

 died from troubles possible to understand correctly 

 till after death. 



The experience in most small flocks, kept imder 

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