The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1249 
THE HENYARD 
Death of Fowls 
I had about 200 pullets that I was 
keeping for laying. Some time ago I 
carried them all from their coops to a 
large henhouse, where I wished them to 
roost. I kept them there for about two 
weeks, and when letting them out some 
of them seemed sick and very weak, and 
in about two or three days they started to 
die. I have lost about 1(H) or more. They 
run from the feed when I throw it to 
them ; then they get near n building, 
stand there awhile, then sit down. They 
seem to be weak across the lower part of 
the hack. They try to walk, but they 
just go in a lope, with their tails turned 
downward, almost touching the ground. 
They tremble all over, close their eyes, 
and will stand or lie there till they die. 
Some of them die in a few hours; others 
linger for three days. Now my old hens 
are getting the same way ; even the ducks 
have it now. Ducks die in the same man¬ 
ner. I have lost now about 30 ducks. 
Some are all feathered. When I had 
them up I fed them corn, gave them milk 
when I had it; also fed them crushed 
corn and buttermilk mash. dry. We had 
some wheat that smelled very musty. 
We gave (hem quite a good deal of that. 
Do you think that could have been the 
cause? Wo have uot fed any wheat now 
for four days, but still they die. w. H. 
St. Michaels. Md. 
The fac-t that the pullets, hens and 
ducks were all taken sick after having 
been fed the musty wheat and that they 
all exhibit similar symptoms would cer¬ 
tainly indicate that the spoiled food was 
responsible for the illness and the deaths. 
That is the only explanation warranted 
by the facts given in your letter. There 
may, of course, be some other explanation 
of the trouble, bur it is not evident from 
.vour description. Probably there is little 
that you can do other than to see that 
only wholesome food is given from now 
on. It is possible, too, that all the fowls 
concerned have obtained access to some 
other poisonous material about the prem¬ 
ises. a decaying carcass, rat poison, spray¬ 
ing material, salt, old paint skins, etc. It 
would be well to make a careful search 
for some such source of poisoning. 
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Worms in Poultry 
We have found in the droppings of our 
chickens several worms, some about 4 
in long, round and wiry. In some cases 
they seem to be surrounded by bloody 
particles. What treatment would you 
suggest for n flock of 200? A small part 
of the droppings seem to be bloody, espe¬ 
cially among the pullets. Would worms 
be the cause of this? I have read at 
some time that pumpkin seeds and car¬ 
rots are good to keep worms from poul¬ 
try. (’an you tell me what there is iu 
the seeds and carrots to keep them away, 
and how does it act upon the worms? 
How much should be fed to a flock of 
200? Will the meat of n pumpkin 
chopped up have the same effect? Does 
linseed oilmenl mixed as part of protein 
concentrate of the wash have any effect 
upon worms? I have been using linseed 
oilmenl and tankage, half and half, as 
protein concentrate. Is this as good as 
beef scrap or fish meal? B. M. A. 
New Jersey. 
The tobacco treatment is recommended 
for flock treatment when worms in suffi¬ 
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Two hours later feed 1 lb. of Epsom salts 
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Pumpkin seeds contain a resiu that is 
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the dose for humans being two ounces 
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into an emulsion. When fed to fowls the 
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allowing the birds to eat what they will. 
Tapeworms are hard to dislodge, and it 
is not likely that the more eating of 
pumpkin seeds will rid animals of them. 
Effective treatment for worms requires 
fasting and special preparation upon the 
part of the patient So far as I know, 
carrots have no value as anthelmintics, 
or worm destroyers. Neither has linseed 
oil. 
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a protein concentrate for hens, and the 
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