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THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 



March, 1914 



Roup. 



Roup is a dreaded disease that at- 

 tacks the birds of all kinds in fall and 

 spring, that sooner or later affects the 

 whole flock and sometimes develops into 

 canker, blindness, consumption, paraly- 

 sis, and disease from head to foot. Ap- 

 parently roup may be cured, but if a 

 male bird has it, discard him for a 

 breeder (sa3's an American correspon- 

 dent). His offspring will surely have 

 symptoms at two weeks old or in a day 

 or so after hatched, making small and 

 poor layers, not paying for trouble and 

 feed, and no -matter whether you keep 

 poultry for pleasure or profit, results 

 are what you want. Kill that male, it 

 makes no difference what the cost; get 

 one that is guaranteed never to have 

 had roup, and notice results of his 

 chicks. Don't look for a prizewinner 

 and score card only, but a bird of vigo- 

 rous health and vitality, and good layers 

 will be his offspring. 



To keep white birds from turning yel- 

 low feed salt in their mash ; it will make 

 their feathers white as snow. Dry salt 

 will kill fowls; it must be fed in mash 

 for results in digestion and roup and 

 white feathers. I have lost males at 

 moulting time that would develop some 

 form of roup and hens that were valu- 

 able would go blind. They would look 

 all right, but would starve to death. 

 Now say from years back the male had 

 the roup handed down to him, and the 

 germ was transmitted to all his chicks, 

 when he should have been salted with 

 the hatchet. Farmers become disgusted, 

 and the man says : "J^Lne, lake those 

 chickens to market that are left." It is 

 a mean practice that could be stopped 

 by salting the male. Have a healthy 

 male in your breeding pen. I never 

 have roup in my fowls now. I learned 



by close study where it could be preven- 

 ted. I wanted best results. Sometimes 

 my fowls have colds, but they are salted 

 with a preventive of roup. An ounce 

 (if prevention is worth a pound of cure 

 when diseased with roup. 



Hints. 



Age is a factor which affects in no 

 little degree the value and usefulness of 

 a fowl. This is a point which many who 

 keep poultry — and some in large num- 

 bers — do not thoroughly realise. If they 

 do, they pay very little or po regard to 

 the matter. 



Farmers are many of them culpable in 

 this respect, and among their flocks, 

 birds are to be found which have long 

 passed their day of usefulness for egg 

 production. 



To possess a knowledge of a fowl's 

 age should be made- a point of especial 

 care, and a poultry keeper ought to 

 know the age of each individual bird on 

 liis ground. 



When a bird becomes too old to yield 

 a profit beyond its cost in food it should 

 l)e disposed of, -and not allowed to 

 diminish the profits that may be made 

 from other birds. 



To what age a bird may be expected 

 to yield a profit and be worth keeping, 

 depends on the bird and the purpose 

 it is intended to serve. As a layer the 

 limit is two and a half years. 



For egg production a hen ceases to be 

 profitable after it-s second season, and it 

 should then be disposed of. / 



For sitting purposes and rearing it is 

 well worth while to retain some birds. 

 A hen that is likely to be useful as a 



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Lice. 



Wartn weather breeds lice, but I gua- 

 rantee the following mixture will kill 

 'em quicker:- — Dissolve 1 lb. of naptha- 

 lene scales in a gallon of kerosene and 

 allow to stand for two days, when it is 

 ready for use. Paint the .inside of a 

 large case with the solution, place eight 

 or nine birds in same, and cover with 

 a piece of bagging, leaving them in it 

 for half an hour, and the fumes will 

 have killed every louse. The one paint- 

 ing will last for about two and a half 

 hours, so a goodly number of birds can 

 be done with one application. Repeat 

 the operation in two weeks' time, to kill 

 any eggs which might have hatched since 

 the previous operation, and with ordi- 

 nary care and and a regular dust bath 

 "biddy" will he a happy creature, and 

 will repay you well in extra eggs. Paint 

 perches and all crevices well once a 

 week, and you will find yourself and 

 hens free from the greatest poultry 

 enemy and pest. Three applications at 

 two or tliree days' intervals will tho- 

 roughly cure scaly leg, and is perfectly 

 harmless to the birds. Cost, to last for 

 30 hens for six month, is about: 1 gal- 

 lon kerosene, 8d., 1 lb. napthalene scales 

 1/4, total 2/. — Exchange. 



