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7h* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.December 10, 1921 
The Henyard 
Fatal Illness in Fowls 
I am losing ra.v flock of Barred Ply¬ 
mouth Itoeks at the rate of two or three 
a day. I lad 150, now have only 120. I 
am at a loss to know what the trouble is. 
The birds are in good flesh and are laying 
about 50 per cent. The flock will seem 
all right at night and in the morning 
I found birds dead on the dropping 
boards. Occasionally they crawl into the 
nests during the day and die. On exami¬ 
nation I found the liver enlarged. The 
intestines are filled with a slimy, yellow¬ 
ish substance, which also runs out of the 
month and vent. It seems to be catching, 
as at first it w^s confined to one pen, but 
now is in two. l. g. w. 
Amherst, Mas3. 
I cannot tell from your description 
what the cause of these deaths is, though 
I doubt if there is any contagious disease 
present. You do not speak of any diar¬ 
rhoea as being noted, and an enlarged liver 
is found in various disorders. Heavily 
oue part of gluten feed, thus reducing the 
proportion of meat scrap. I have fed 
both, like both, and have no particular 
preference for either. m. b. d. 
Pullets with Colds 
I have 25 White Leghorn pullets. A 
few of them have colds and a watery dis¬ 
charge from the nose. One or two have 
a peculiar rattle in their throats. What 
is the disease, and what can I do to cure 
them ? c. j. w. 
College Point, N. Y. 
Fall colds,^ coming with the advent of 
cold, damp Fall weather, are common m 
pullets, and should be recovered from 
without any trouble if the birds are of 
vigorous stock and have been- properly 
raised. The pullets . should be given 
clean, dry quarters where ventilation will 
be ample, but where they are not directly 
exposed to cold drafts. They should not 
be shut up in close unventilated quarters 
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Sunflowers as Beanpoles 
After reading in The II. N.-Y. how one 
of your readers raised sunflowers as bean¬ 
poles. I decided to try it. Never again. 
The young sunflower plants had to be 
weeded for two or three weeks before 
beans could be put in. Then, as they shot 
up. they shaded the beans so that the 
vines, with few exceptions, were thrift¬ 
less and sickly and made little growth. 
The vines in many cases actually -tried to 
run away from the sunflowers, There 
were nearly 200 of the latter, and I had 
to do much filling in of beans. One flower 
stalk was 11 ft. 7 in. high, which beat 
that shown on page 122S of Tiie R. X.-Y. 
The one flower it had weighed over 
lbs. There were other big stalks, and 
some had many blooms. I got a few 
beans. The chickens that got the seed 
received the benefit of the enterprise. 
Never again as beanpoles. 
Another experiment I read of in The 
I t. X.-Y. was that of staking potatoes. 
There may be something in that. I 
staked 10 or 15 hills, but the peculiarity 
of the past season (lack of rain in our 
section) precluded definite results either 
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New Jersey. 
fed fowls frequently develop digestive 
disorders, in which an enlarged liver is 
found after death, and die in about the 
way you describe. Such deaths are usu¬ 
ally only occasional in the flock, however, 
and do not cause heavy losses. It would 
probably be well for you to give your 
flock a dose of Epsom salts, and to feed 
more lightly for a time. The salts may 
be administered by dissolving a pound of 
the crystals in the drinking water of 
each 100 fowls, using a large quantity 
of water, or mixing the same amount with 
the moist mash and seeing to it. that each 
fowl gets its share. M. b. d. 
Feeding Ration for Hens 
Will you till me the very best feeding 
rations for 150 R. I. Red fowls I wish 
to hold over this Winter? Give best 
grain mixture and a laying mash. At 
present I feed wheat, oats and corn, a 
laying mash and oyster shells. I prefer 
to mix the feed myself. MRS. J. P. 
Lincoln, X. J. 
There is nothing better for the whole 
grain mixture than wheat, oats and corn. 
I should make this up from a lirtle more 
than half cracked corn and the remainder 
in what whole oats the fowls will readily 
eat, and wheat. Look out that the oats 
you add are not wasted in the litter in¬ 
stead of being eaten. They are not very 
palatable, and the hens may not eat any 
large amount of them. If you have bar¬ 
ley or buckwheat, or can buy them at a 
reasonable price, add them to the whole 
grain ration, only seeing that corn makes 
up half, or more, of it. Some are not 
feeding any wheat, and are getting just 
as good results as though it formed part 
of the ration. It is found in the mash 
in the form of bran and middlings, of 
course. 
I know of no better laying mash than 
either of the two often described in these 
columns. What is known as the Cornell 
laying mash consists of equal parts by 
weight of cornmeal. ground oats, wheat 
bran, middlings and beef scrap, with ?> 
lbs. of fine salt added to each 500 lbs. of 
the mash. The Storrs (Conn.) laying 
mash is the same, except that 'they add 
or compelled to scratch in dirty, moldy 
litter for exercise. Pullets raised on free 
range should be got into their Winter 
quarters and permitted to become accus¬ 
tomed to them before the sour weather of 
November. Some people think that the 
addition of permanganate of potash crys¬ 
tals to the drinking water, using enough 
to give the water a wine red color, is of 
value in preventing and curing simple 
colds, but dependence may better be 
placed upon good hygiene in the poultry 
quarters. Fresh air, sunlight, cleanliness 
and proper feeding are of greater value 
than drugs. m. b. d. 
Lameness 
What ails my chickens? The trouble 
starts with a slight lameness which in¬ 
creases until at the end of three or four 
weeks it is difficult for them to walk. 
This is followed by diarrhoea, bright yel¬ 
low in color, which is soon followed by 
death. This has been going on for two 
or three years. At first I attributed the 
lameness to an injury, but now I know 
it is not. I am unable to make up m.v 
mind whether it is mildly contagious or 
whether the same causes that would pro¬ 
duce the trouble in one would produce it 
in others. Birds are P. Rocks, and have 
a wide range on the farm. They are fed 
heavily. ‘ c. ir. 
Monticellt), Wis. 
Lameness, with diarrhoea, is sometimes 
a manifestation of a serioys disease that 
works havoc with flocks, but for which 
no cause or cure has yet been found. Leg 
weakness or leg paralysis is one of the 
first and most prominent symptoms, and 
is soon followed by death. From the 
length of time over which you have ob¬ 
served the trouble in your flock and the 
small mortality. I should judge, however, 
that you have no serious or contagious 
disease present, and that the leg weakness 
is simply the result of general weakness 
from digestive or other internal disorders. 
Close confinement and heavy feeding 
bring about disorders of the liver and 
other digestive organs, and occasional 
deaths in fowls not able to withstand 
such conditions. M. B. D. 
