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December 6, 1924 
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Organized Co-operation 
By JOHN J. DILLON 
A NEW BOOK 
This book is written in three 
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PART ONE.—The Develop¬ 
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Chickenpox 
I have a flock of 80 well-bred White 
Wyandotte hens, and about 200 chickens. 
Some disease has got into them. There 
will be spots on their ears and combs 
and gills. You would think that one hen 
had just picked the other one and just 
drawn blood ; some will have it one place 
and some another around their head ; it 
will swell up a little and have a heavy 
scab and matter. It seems to spread and 
go to their eyes. Their eyes will be 
swollen shut. When you see this spot 
first come on their head it takes about a 
week before their eyes are shut and a 
kind of matter running out of them. In 
about another week they are ready to 
die. K. R. 
New York. 
Chickenpox ; a very contagious disease 
and one that will he likely to run through 
your flock. Separate all sick fowls and 
keep them by themselves until death or 
recovery. Paint the “spots” with tinct¬ 
ure of iodine, repeating after a short time 
if necessary. Paint also any “cankers” 
within their mouths with same substance. 
Clean up their eating and drinking uten¬ 
sils with boiling water, and clean their 
quarters also, afterward admitting full 
sunlight to keep them dry and clean. 
Feed soft, easily digested food to the sick 
fowls if they have difficulty in swallow¬ 
ing. Chickenpox, when uncomplicated 
with roup, is not ordinarily a very se¬ 
rious affection, but the fact that you are 
losing fowls from it indicates either com¬ 
plications or a severe infection. M. B. d. 
Manson’s Eye Worms in 
Fowls 
Will you advise me what to do for 
chickens that have worms in their eyes? 
The worm are about one inch long (vary 
in length),*and the size of a straight pin. 
I took 57 worms from one hen’s eyes. I 
have about 150 birds. I feed corn at 
night, and laying mash in morning; have 
free range, plenty of water from artesian 
well. Part of the hens’ combs and faces 
are very pale all the time, but they are 
real fat. I get very few eggs. I have 
dipped them today for lice. How many 
days before another dip is necessary? 
Wauchula, Fla. mbs. j. c. 
These uncommon parasites are probab¬ 
ly what are known as. Manson’s eye 
worms, and seem to be limited as para¬ 
sites of chickens to sea coast regions. 
They are small white, thread-like worms, 
about a half inch in length and as thick 
as. a fine needle. As many as 200 have 
been found in the eyes of one fowl, lo¬ 
cated beneath the nictitating (winking) 
membrane. The treatment recommended 
is removing the worms with a soft cloth, 
after they have been partially dislodged 
by washing out the eyes with a solution 
of bicarbonate of soda (cooking soda) in 
water. Dipping the fowls for lice, or 
using other treatment, may he repeated 
after a week’s interval, or less. The use 
of blue ointment, a bit smeared over the 
skin beneath the vent, is of more lasting 
effect than dipping, and easier of appli¬ 
cation. M - B - D - 
Feeding in Lighted House 
Having read and heard so much about 
artificial lights for hens I thought I 
would try them; must use them at night 
as I do * not get home from work until 
about 8 :15 or 9 :15 a. m. I feed scratch 
feed, 4 lhs. in morning and 8 lbs. about 
5 p. m., using lights. I feed grain. 4 lbs. 
morning and divide the 8 lbs.. 4 lbs., 
4:30 p. m., and 4 lbs. 7 p. m., lights on 
7 to 8 p. m. Should I feed a larger 
amount of grain and should I use lights 
longer? Before I go to work I scatter 
the grain in the litter and keep litter 
up a bit so chickens get an early feed 
in the morning. w. M. 
If you wish to use the lights at night, 
the evening meal will probably be the 
most convenient system for you to use. 
The pullets should be fed as usual dur¬ 
ing the day and. at eight o’clock, lights 
should be turned on and the birds given 
an extra feeding of grain, what they will 
quickly clean up. They will learn to 
come from their perches, eat and return 
in an hour, when the lights may be 
turned off. They should have the early 
morning feed as before, for the gain 
from lighting comes, not from time of 
feeding but from the extra amount fed 
at such times as will prevent the .long 
fast during the latter part of the Winter 
night. Fowls under lights need more 
grain than those not lighted; water must 
be always available when it is light 
enough for them to eat and regularity in 
feeding must be observed. Do not make 
sudden changes in your method of feed¬ 
ing. If changes must be made, make them 
gradually, or you will be likely to induce 
molting and a check in egg laying. The 
brooder that you'mention is an excellent 
one. M. b. d. 
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Day-Old 
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