CANKER 



This is a disease which is more likely to attack game birds than others 

 though it is found among all of them. Strange to say it usually fastens 

 on strong, vigorous birds, and is frequently contracted during shipment of 

 show birds. It is at times a veritable epidemic among pigeons. 



CAUSE — Over feeding or too constant feeding of corn overheats the 

 blood and often causes canker. See Aspergillosis often taken for canker. 



SYMPTOMS^ — Difficulty in swallowing, with attempts to swallow as 

 though there were some grain or other substance lodged in the throat. The 

 neck sometimes has the appearance of being stiff: White spots appear on 

 the membrane of the mouth, etc. 



TREATMENT— When given according to directions, CONKEY'S 

 ROUP REMEDY is the most valuable remedy known for this disease. 



TUBERCULOSIS 



Fortunately for the poultryman, this disease is not very common. Its 

 symptoms are so much the same as those of Consumption, and the treatment 

 is so nearly identical that we will treat them as one in this article. 



SYMPTOMS — Lack of life, emaciation with indications of indigestion, 

 but there is in Tuberculosis a decided rise in temperature and, during the 

 last stages, violent diarrhoea. It is not possible to outline the symptoms so 

 surely that you can absolutely rely upon them in diagnosing the disease. It 

 is a germ disease, and a bacteriologist only could give a definite opinion 

 after examination, but this is not possible or practical for many poultrymen. 

 A post mortem examination will usually reveal tubercules and nodules 

 throughout the liver and covering many of the internal membranes. When, 

 however, you find any of the ' fowls "going light," as it is called, that is 

 showing rapid and extreme emaciation, with the above symptoms, take no 

 chances, but kill them at once. 



(As the majority of cases of Going Light result from Tuberculosis; we 

 have used the term in this connection, but there are also cases of Going Light 

 from other causes. Sometimes fowls with voracious appetites will go light 

 through a specific germ for which no remedy is known and others will 

 go light from indigestion which is not difficult Of treatment, and such cases 

 without evidence of other symptoms, can be treated as for Indigestion.) 



CAUSE^-As stated before, Tuberculosis is a germ disease and is highly 

 contagious. _ It is usually communicated through contact with birds which 

 have it. Some rnaintain that it can be contracted from human beings, or 

 from cattle that are suffering from Tuberculosis, but this has never been 

 proven. In any event it is best to provide against such a possibility. There 

 is no question but that strong, vigorous stock are seldom troubled with it, 

 and that maintaining a high standard of health is the best known safeguard. 



TREATMENT— Kill all which show any symptoms and burn and 

 bury the ashes. P,einove the balance of the flock to new quarters and, 

 with a sprayer or- sprinkling can, disinfect everything that the fowls have 

 come in contact with, using a solution of CONKEY'S . NOX-I-CIDE, two 

 parts NOX-I-CIDE to one hundred, of water. Go over houses; runs, roosts, 

 Titensils, EVERYTHING, oncp a, day for a while. Fowls can theri go back 

 -to old quarters. CONKERS POULTRY TONIC should be given in their 

 ■daily mash. If this were -given bcjtHsionally as a tonic, there would be but 

 little cause for alarm over "tli'is trouble. 



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