Live Stock. 



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[July, 1912. 



poultry houses be extensive and kero- 

 sene considered too expensive, an emul- 

 sion of such will be effective, viz, 1 gallon 

 of kerosene, 1 of water and 1 lb. of soap 

 boiled together for about half an hour. 

 One authority recommends for a wash 

 for the house and fittings a decoction 

 made by boiling 4 oz. of tobacco in a 

 gallon of water. A generous application 

 of crude carbolic is another excellent 

 remedy. Crude petroleum is also as 

 effective as the finest kerosene. 



Lice are of less consequence but danger- 

 ous withal. A vermin-infested bird will 

 not lay well and will not hatch well, 

 frequently leaving the nest before the 

 eggs are due and, what is nearly as bad, 

 should she hatch them, lice are itnme- 

 dately transmitted to the chickens, 

 many of them dying from the effects. 

 Lice, however, are more easily extermin- 

 ated than the mites, a few dustings 

 with one of the insect-powders being 

 effective, Tobacco dust is also most 

 effective and a handful of this placed in 

 the setting hen's nest and another hand- 

 ful added when within a week cf bring- 

 ing out her chicks will keep her free 

 from these irritating pests. In using 

 dusting powders, the simplest way is to 

 spread a newspaper ; hold the hen by 

 her legs, with the body and head hang- 

 ing down ; the powder can then be 

 worked into the feathers down the skin. 

 The struggling of the hen will assist in 

 working in the powder and what falls 

 on the paper can be used again. Indeed 

 to be effectual, there should be two or 

 three dustings at intervals of a week. 



Abscess or Bomblb Root. 



This is more commom in Turkeys than 

 in fowls and is due largely to their 

 habits of roosting as high as possible. 

 The trouble is more prevalent in dry 

 localities where the ground is hard, 



The preventive measures are to bed the 

 yards with straw where the birds, alight 

 from the perch and in the case of very 

 heavy birds, to give them no perch; and 

 also to bed the sleeping-ground. When 

 cases occur one or two paintings with 

 iodine usually effect a cure. 



Liver Disease, 

 Preventive measures in practice are to 

 sweep up all droppings under the roost 

 at least twice a week ; to spray the roosts 

 at least once a month with a strong 

 solution of phenyl ; to allow the turkeys 

 out of their yards from sunrise to dark ; 

 provision of wood-charcoal constantly 

 before the birds ; medicating the drink- 

 ing water with Epsom salts and a small 

 amount of permanganate of potash ; and 

 to avoid overfeeding, the use of rich oil 

 food or spices but to feed in troughs or 

 on boards. 



Other Diseases. 

 Ovarian troubles are almost unknown. 

 Bionchitis is also very rare and it is 

 cured by a tablespoonful of raw linseed 

 oil or a tablespoonful of salad-oil and 4 

 drops of chlorodyne, Scaley legs are 

 effectively treated by one or two appli- 

 cations of kerosene to the affected legs. 



HOME REMEDIES FOR LIVE STOCK. 



By Thomas H. Dale, m.r.c.v.s., 

 Government Veterinary Officer, 

 Potchefstroom. 



(Prom the Agricultural Journal of the 

 Union of South Africa, Vol. 11, No. 4, 



April, 1912.) 

 The average farmer is often laughed at 

 by the '' superior person " or those more 

 fortunately placed for the, what appears 

 to them, extraordinary remedies which 

 are often pressed into service when any 

 of the live stock of the farm fall sick, but 

 serious consideration of the question will 

 force the individual to wonder what he 

 would do in similar circumstances, the 

 nearest store probably ten miles away 

 and the nearest chemist nearer fifty. 

 There is also the fact that for gener- 

 ations the farmer has had to fall back on 

 his own resources, retaining with almost 

 sacred reverence the lore bequeathed to 

 him by his sires, and making the pantry 

 or the cart-shed his dispensary. One 



