Cholera. 
Symptoms . — There is sudden and great thirst with diarrhoea ; the evao- 
Gations are greenish, but soon change to a whitish character ; cramp en- 
sues and the bird totters, falls, and often dies suddenly. Administer 
every three hours, until relief is obtained, the following: 
No. 8. 5 Grains rhubarb, 
2 Grains cayenue pepper, 
10 drops laudanum. 
Give this at a dose for large fowls, and half this quantity to chickens 
two months" old. Between each dose keep up the strength by giving a 
tea-spoonful of brandy and water, half and half. This is also good for 
common diarrhoea, omitting the brandy. 
Gapes. 
Parasitic worms ( sclerostoma syngamus ) in the windpipe, occurring in 
chickens up to two or three months of age. 
How to Cure. • 
Separate the chickens affected ; strip a small quill feather to within 
half an inch of the end. Dip in spirits of turpentine ; pass it down the 
small opening of the windpipe, at the base of the tongue ; turn it once or 
twice around and draw it out. If it does not relieve operate again next 
day. Give a warm, dry place, plenty of good food, and for drink, milk 
well sprinkled with black pepper. It is supppsed that the gape worm is 
produced by a small parasite insect resembling a tick found on the heads 
of young chickens. Examine the heads with a pocket lens and if found 
use the following, lightly rubbed on. 
No. i. 1 Ounce mercurial ointment, 
• .1 Ounce lard oil, 
X Ounce flowers of sulphur, 
yi Ounce crude petroleum. 
Mix, and apply just warm enough to be melted. It is said that a case 
of gapes has never been found in which the young chickens were not first 
infected with the tick parasite. 
Black Bot. 
Swelling of the legs and feet, the comb black, resembling mortification. 
Give a tea-spoonful of castor oil, and then daily, until relieved, half a 
