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Treatment. — Care should be taken to not spread the disease 

 to other premises, remembering that the germs of disease may 

 be carried on the feet of man and animals from an infected yard. 



The germs may be carried in a stream of water, if it becomes 

 polluted by yard-drainage or by throwing dead birds into it. 

 Buzzards feasting on the dead bodies of birds that have died of 

 cholera may distribute infection to new premises miles away. 

 The dead birds should, by all means, be burned. However, 

 if this is not desirable, they should be deeply buried and 

 covered with lime. 



All feed should be given in troughs. The troughs should be 

 slatted across the top so the birds cannot get their feet into 

 and contaminate the feed. Water should be kept in like or 

 other equally good containers. 



The hen house must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected 

 with a 5 per cent, carbolic acid or some other equallj' good dis- 

 infectant. This work must be thoroughly done or it will be 

 entirely without results. It is very difficult to disinfect the 

 yards. If the yards can be plowed and a crop grown upon it, 

 the sun's rays would do much to disinfect it. The germs 

 are very resistant and live for a long time outside the body. 



Intestinal antiseptics are indicated. Use permanganate of 

 potash, as recommended under blackhead. Also the three 

 sulphocarbolates are valuable. Six grains of bichlorid of 

 mercury and 3 grains of citric acid to the gallon of water make 

 a solution 1 : 10,000, which is borne very weU by poultry. 

 The citric acid aids in dissolving the bichlorid of mercury. 

 Bichlorid of mercury is slowly soluble, and it is necessary 

 to make sure that it is all dissolved. 



WHITE DIARRHEA 



White diarrhea of baby chicks is a menace to the poultry 

 raiser. 



There are two forms of this disease. One form is due to a 

 rod-shaped germ, microscopic in size, and scientificallj^ called 

 the Bacillus pullorum. 



It has been determined that the ovaries of a hen producing 

 eggs may be affected by this germ and that the eggs she pro- 



