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The Henyard. 
Favus. 
I HAVE a sick lmn whos« symptoms 
do not correspond with any of the 
descriptions found in the lists of “im¬ 
portant diseases.” Can you enlighten 
me? I discovered that she was egg 
bound, and, as subsequently developed, 
apparently from an overloading of the in¬ 
testines. After treating her with an in¬ 
jection of oil, the egg was successfully 
laid, but still she seemed uneasy. I con- 
eluded that she was "broody” and placed 
her in a good-sized crate, with dust ashes, 
food and water, but no hay. After three 
days of this she stopped clucking and I 
put her back with the others, hut. she 
would not eat—acted strange and sat all 
in a bunch. She suddenly lost her color 
and looked positively pale. I decided this 
was natural enough after her experience, 
but last, night the skin all over her face 
began to peel, ears, comb, wattles and 
all around her eyes and nose. I applied 
vaseline and this morning the skin looks 
normal and red once more, but this peel¬ 
ing is extending around her neck so that 
when she raises her head her neck has the 
appearance of protruding from a collar¬ 
like effect of this peeling and the skin 
looks red and irritated underneath. I 
feel uneasy lest there be something con¬ 
tagious about her condition. 
New York. a. M. it. 
The condition which you describe is 
peculiar and I cannot be sure as to its 
cause. There is a disease, however, 
called white comb, or favus, which might 
produce similar symptoms. This is a con¬ 
tagious disease caused by a fungus 
growth which attacks the comb and head 
of the fowl producing light gray scabs or 
crusts, upon the surface of the skin, and 
as these spread they may coalesce and 
cover the greater part of the head and 
neck, and even spread to the body. Upon 
removing these crusts, the skin beneath 
is found irritated and red and might have 
the appearance of having peeled off. A 
bird so affected should be isolated until 
cured and may be treated by gently re¬ 
moving the loose crusts and anointing 
the skin beneath with an ointment made 
up of one part calomel to eight parts vase¬ 
line. As this disease is very contagious 
and may spread to cats and other pets 
as well as to humans precautions should 
be taken to keep an affected fowl from 
coining into contact with other animals 
and it may be neeessary to clean up, 
whitewash, and otherwise disinfect Liu: 
poultry quarters. In cases of moderate 
severity, the bird affected does not appear 
very sick lull if the disease spreads and 
involves the body, exhaustion and death 
may finally ensue. M. n. n. 
Dying Chicks. 
What should I feed chicks on the 
start? They start all right for a few 
days, and then they begin to die until 
they are three weeks old. They get weak 
and huve the dinrrhma. F. T. 
Maryland. 
There are a number of reasons why 
chirks die in large numbers within a few 
weeks of hatching. Diarrhoea due to 
germs that are conveyed from one chick 
to another, and diarrhoeas that are due 
in improper feeding and to such low vi¬ 
tality in the newly hatched chicks that 
they succumb from inability to carry on 
ilie natural processes of life. In view of 
’ uiii* past troubles in raising chicks, you 
liould hatch only from strong, vigorous, 
fowls that had good range and have not 
been forced for early Winter egg pro¬ 
duction, and also that have always been 
free from disease. Don’t use closely con- 
lined, hothouse fowls as breeders, and see 
l hut the males in the flock are young and 
vigorous. Thoroughly clean and disin¬ 
fect ail brortiers in winch your chicks are 
to be placed, if artificial methods are to 
be used. Scrub the inside of your brood¬ 
ers with hot water and soapsuds until 
they are as clean us your kitchen table, 
then expose to the sun and air until they 
me dry. Clean the trays and inside of 
your incubator equally thoroughly before 
placing eggs within it. Then place the 
brooders upon fresh ground and clean 
grass, if possible. Use clean litter in 
the brooders and change it often; twice 
a week, anyway. If chicks are hatched 
mid brooded under hens, see that the lat¬ 
ter are free from lice and keep them in 
clean quarters. 
If you have soured skim-milk, feed that 
from the start, and feed it liberally, give 1 
the small chicks finely cracked corn, 
cracked wheat and pinhead oatmeal, or 
rolled outs; a good mixture being 
"lie part pinhead oatmeal, two parts 
finely cracked corn and three parts 
cracked wheat. Peed this until the 
chicks are old enough to eat whole wheat 
and larger cracked corn. For ground 
feed, mix equal parts by weight of wheat 
bran, wheat middlings, cornmeal, and 
sifted beef scrap of good quality. Let 
the chicks have all of this that they will 
'•at, dry, and give them two meals a day 
"f the same mash moistened with skim- 
milk <ir water. Feed five times daily for 
flic lirst few weeks, giving, aside from the 
dry mash whieh may always be kept be¬ 
fore them, only as much at each feeding 
ns they will quickly clean up. Hee that 
they always have clean water to drink 
!,, )d that they have fine sand or chick grit 
where they can get at it. See that they 
do not become overheated or chilled in 
flair brooders, and if you have reason to 
suspect that your flocks are infeefed with 
contagious white diarrhoea, do not at¬ 
tempt to hatch or raise chicks from them 
at all. Obtain eggs from stock that you 
know to be free from disease. m. R. J>. 
Permanganate in Iron Containers. 
1 notice in your advice on the use of 
permanganate of potash in the drinking 
water for the hens, you state that it 
should not be used in iron drinking ves¬ 
sels. Please state why. 1 am using it 
in galvanized fountains, but if it will 
cause any trouble with birds or fountains 
1 want to know it. w. o. h. 
Virginia. 
1 think that you will find your galvan¬ 
ized fountains discolored and finally dam¬ 
aged if you continue to use the perman¬ 
ganate solution in them. I do not know 
that the drug has any action upon metal 
that would render it injurious to fowls, 
but believe earthenware vessels to be 
more suitable for so strong an oxidizing 
agent ns permanganate of potash. 
m. B. n. 
Hens Eat Droppings. 
My hens eat their ow i droppings. Can 
you give cause and remedy? The birds 
are apparently in very good condition and 
are laying well. They have grit and 
shells before them all the time. 
New Hampshire. k. b. b. 
T do not know the cause of this mani¬ 
festation of depraved appetite when fowls 
are well fed. You may be able to break 
up the habit by arranging a screen of 
some kind that will shut the fowls away 
from their roosting quarters and dropp¬ 
ings hoards during the daytime, and, like 
all other vices, if may be discouraged by 
giving the fowls their liberty to pick up 
such food as they desire on range. 
M. R. D. 
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