i PItTCE SIX CENTS, 
( $2.50 PER YEAR. 
NEW YORK, AN1) ROCHESTER, N. Y, APRIL 13, 1872 
VOL. XXV. NO. 13 
WHOLE NO. 1150. 
[Entered according to Act of Conereaa, In the year 1372, by D. T>. T. Moohk, In tlie otllce of tlie Librarian of (.ongreaB, at U ashlngton.] 
Spangled Hainburgs to commend them ex¬ 
cept beauty? Will they endure confine¬ 
ment well?” We cannot answer this ques¬ 
tion satisfactorily, since we have never kept 
them. Let others, who have, reply. 
To Rid Canaries of Lice.—I. H. B. 
asks how to rid bin Canaries of lice. A 
friend of ours, having large experience, 
uses for perches ill the cages sticks of the 
common older ( Sd'nibticu.s Canadensis ), 
from which the pith is removed and notches 
cut in the upper side of the perch at dis¬ 
tances of one-half to one inch; thus a series 
of holes connecting the exterior and in¬ 
terior of the perch are made. As the birds 
purge, the lice leave thorn and creep into 
the interior of the perch. Each morning 
the perch is removed and the lice jarred 
out ou to a piece of white paper and de¬ 
stroyed. VVe have also heard that lice will 
not stay on a bird or fowl that sits on a sas¬ 
safras perch. 
Remedy for Hens Eating 1 Eggs.— 
Build a laying-room a little dark, so that 
they cannot sec to do that kind of mischief. 
Hens naturally like to retire out of sight 
to lay, in a snug, cozy place. It prevents 
liens tllat are laying from being disturbed 
by going into tho house; and st rolling hens 
do not bother, for they cannot see to pick. 
A. room six by eight feet, is large enough 
for seventy-five or one huudrod hens; for 
it will accommodate twenty nests or more. 
Shelves are necessary to set tho nests upon, 
with a projection in front for the hens to 
walk on.— George F. Rakkk. 
came lame, and grow worse until they had 
to use their wings to help them walk. Half 
discouraged she put them out into the barn¬ 
yard, and every one of them got better. 
Two weeks ago, my chicks, then about five 
weeks old, and which had been ou a hard 
floor, began to be troubled in the same way. 
POULTRY NOTES AND QUERIES 
Weak-Legged Chickens.—I would say 
for the benefit of W. T. Trescott, that if 
his chickens that are troubled with weak 
legs are (as I suppose they are) this year’s 
chickeus, and he has kept them on a hard 
CANKER IN FOWLS 
I SEE that “ A Subscriber,” San Antonio, 
Texas, has lost some of bis fowls with a dis¬ 
ease new to him and which, as he says, has 
not been made note of in any of the poultry 
works. I have never seen the disease men¬ 
tioned in any of the works either. The dis¬ 
ease is Canker , which affects both the throat 
and eye, and, if not speedily checked, eats 
its way inward to tho brain. It first ap¬ 
pears (generally) in the throat, though 
sometimes I have seen the eye attacked and 
the throat remain perfectly clear through 
the whole disease. The eye first com¬ 
mences to swell, and waters quite freely for 
a day or two, the swelling increasing all the 
time, sometimes reaching the size of a 
small walnut; upon being opened, it is filled 
with a hard, yellow matter, which is very 
offensive. 
I have found this easily cured by bathing 
the eye with tepid water aud vinegar, let¬ 
ting it run well into it and then squeezing 
lightly around tho eye, which Ioomju* the 
matter from the skin; by drawing the lid 
back anfbpressing outward the whole mass 
can be taken out in a bull. I have had cases 
where the fowl recovered entirely in three 
days, only being obliged to squeeze out tho 
substance once; others have been of longer 
duration, where I have been obliged to 
scrape out around the eye for many weeks 
(once or twice a week) with the ear end of 
tweezers. In one instance I was obliged to 
remove the entire eye from the fowl. I 
have never lost a fowl from the disease yet. 
Diluted carbolic acid is also very beneficial 
to cleanse with after the substance has been 
removed. 
Taken in its early stages, there is no 
trouble to euro it. The fowls, of course, 
should be separated from the rest, as it is 
contagious. I have never known one to 
have it without others following soon after. 
Tremont, NT. Y. Edward A. Rowe. 
Prize CreveocBUr FowIh.— Wogive here¬ 
with, portraits of English Creveceeur fowls, 
which have recently won prizes at English 
exhibitions. They are tho property of 
Rorert B. Wood, a gentleman with whom 
many American importers have probably 
dealt. The cock won cups at the Warring¬ 
ton aud Cheltenham shows of 1871, and tho 
hen was the winner of first prizes at Bir¬ 
mingham and Wol verhamptom, a second 
prize at Strand, and a third prize at Bristol. 
We illustrate them as types of first-class 
birds bred by English breeders. 
Pit 1ZE C.UlfiVKOCKTJlfi 
boarded floor, there is no hope for them 
unless he takes them off of such a floor, or 
covers it with from three to six inches of 
horse manure or soil. Last year a friend of 
mine undertook to raise her chicks in the 
bani. When about live weeks old they be- 
Silver Bpangled I lam burgs.— C. F. 
Tyler asks:—“What quality have Silver 
TOO MUCH FEED 
In answer to your Texas correspondent, 
whose chickens have died with that strange 
rattling disease, I have to report the same 
among my bens for the first time this year; 
but very few died, however, except from 
another disease, which I call diarrhea. I 
have lost., every year for the last three 
years, about oue-third of my stock. About 
the first of March every year they begin to 
drop off. For the first two years I could 
not in any way account for it; but I am 
now satisfied that it all comes from over¬ 
feeding, and that the disease will be worse 
where hens are fed a long time on the same 
kind of food. 
I feed my hens very high, in order to 
make them lay; and I get my return, as you 
will see. I keep about sixty, aud I have 
had more than twenty-five eggs a day 
straight through the winter. As a rule the 
hens which lay ull the time get through all 
right; but those which do not lay cannot 
stand the high feed. 
As to remedies, 1 have tried eveiything, 
and am satisfied it is only a waste of time 
to doctor a hen. In my opinion the only 
thing to be done with a sick hen is to take 
her away from the rest, put her in a dry 
place, give but little to eat, and no water 
for several days; this should be doue the 
moment she is seen to move slowly around 
the yard, with her tail drooping. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. N. W. Hiker. 
PRIZE CREYECCEaR COCK 
