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The  Henyard 
Turkey  Talk  from  a  Turkey  Man 
There  is  no  substitute  for  the  grand  old 
turkey.  After  reading  iWillet  Randall’s 
article  on  page  651  in  which  he  speaks 
of  his  white  tom  dragging  along,  and 
says  it  is  blackkhead,  I  beg  to  differ  with 
him.  There  is  another  disease  similar  to 
blackkhead.  which  is  genuine  yellow 
cholera.  The  difference  is  this ;  black¬ 
head  kills  quickly,  the  head  turns  purple, 
then  black.  They  only  last  a  day  or  two, 
while  cholera  drags  along,  sometimes  five 
or  six  days.  The  passages  are  yellow, 
watery  fluid.  The  disease  is  confined  to 
the  liver,  which  fails  to  act,  becomes 
twice  its  natural  size,  causing  all  the 
poison  to  sift  through  the  entire  system. 
The  head  of  the  bird  will  stay  natural, 
wattles  red,  eyes  bright,  u/util  death 
claims  it.  These  two  diseases,  while  very 
closely  related,  are  different.  Cholera 
symptoms  are  refusal  to  eat,  wings  a  lit¬ 
tle  down,  movement  draggy,  breath  foul. 
Treatment,  liver  pills  one  night  and 
morning  for  two  or  three  days,  compell¬ 
ing  the  bird  to  take  some  food ;  I  can 
save  nine  out  of  10  this  way. 
In  regard  to  blackhead,  I  have  used 
the  ipecac  according  to  directions  with 
good  success;  have  lost  no  birds  with 
blackhead  since  using  it,  while  our  neigh¬ 
bors,  not  using  it,  lose  lots  of  birds.  I 
still  claim  there  is  no  substitute  for  the 
turkey ;  he  stands  in  a  distinct  class  by 
himself,  the  king  of  the  Thanksgiving 
and  Christmas  dinners.  G.  L.  c. 
West  Virginia. 
Unhatched  Chicks  Killed  by  Thunder 
Do  you  know  of  any  means  a  person 
can  take  to  prevent  thunder  from  killing 
baby  chicks  in  the  shell  a  few  days  prior 
to  hatching?  j.  w.  M. 
Scranton,  Pa. 
The  best  means  of  prevention  that  I 
know  of  is  to  keep  only  strong,  vigorous 
birds  as  breeders,  to  give  these  liberty 
on  range  and  to  feed  moderately  upon 
well-balanced  rations  during  the  Winter, 
not  trying  to  force  egg  production  to  its 
limit.  With  this,  it  is,  of  course,  neces¬ 
sary  to  avoid  errors  in  incubator  man¬ 
agement,  if  artificial  means  of  hatching 
are  used.  M.  B.  D. 
Administering  Catechu  and  Ipecac 
Will  you  give  me  full  explanation  in 
regard  to  treating  little  chicks  with 
catechu?  When  you  treat  individual 
eases  how  do  you  give  it,  and  how  much  ; 
also  for  big  chickens?  I  am  losing  quite 
a  number  of  my  haby.chicks.  They  have 
the  whole  farm  to  run  on  and  are  moth¬ 
ered  by  hens,  kept  clean  in  every  way-, 
and  proper  feed.  I  have  read  so  much 
about  giving  catechu.  How  much  pow¬ 
dered  ipecac  are  you  supposed  to  give  to 
turkey  poults  if  you  give  it  in  the  dry 
mash ;  also  how  much  of  the  catechu 
can  you  give  in  dry  mash?  R.  \v.  c. 
Moorestown,  N.  J. 
Catechu  is  a  remedy  given  for  the  pre¬ 
vention  of  coccidiosis,  a  disease  caused 
by  small  parasites,  called  eoccidia,  that 
are  harbored  by  birds  and  picked  up  with 
food  and  drink.  Roth  coccidiosis  and 
“blackhead”  have  much  the  same  symp¬ 
toms  and  are  probably  confounded.  In 
the  case  of  either,  methods  of  prevention 
offer  more  hope  than  those  proposed  as 
cures.  It  is  impossible  to  keep  fowls  on 
range  from  picking  up  the  universally 
distributed  coccidia  and  organisms  which 
cause  blackhead,  but  it  may  be  possible 
to  make  the  intestinal  tracts  of  turkeys, 
and  other  fowls,  so  inhospitable  to  them 
that  they  will  not  multiply  rapidly  after- 
being  picked  rip.  The  early  and  contin¬ 
ued  use  of  sour  milk  is  one  method  of  do¬ 
ing  this;  the  acid  of  the  milk  is  not  rel¬ 
ished  by  the  organisms  and  the  food  value 
helps  to  fortify  the  bird  against  its  para¬ 
sites.  Catechu,  one  teaspoonful  to  each 
three  gallons  of  drinking  water,  is  an¬ 
other  substance  objectionable  to  the  coc- 
•eidia.  Those  who  recommend  this  rem¬ 
edy  fail  to  state  what  preparation  of 
catechu  is  to  be  used,  but  I  presume  that 
the  tincture  is  the  preferred  prepara¬ 
tion.  While  I  have  never  had  occasion 
to  use  it,  this  seems  to  me  a  very  mild 
dose  and  it  should  probably  be  used  in  all 
the  drinking  water  of  the  .birds.  Ipecac 
is  the  recently  recommended  remedy  for 
blackhead  in  turkeys.  It  should  also  be 
used  as  a  preventive  and  the  preparation 
used  is  the  powdered  drug ;  one  teaspoon- 
f ul  in  enough  mash  for  20  birds,  old  and 
young,  this  to  be  fed  twice  weekly  until 
the  poults  are  at  least  three  months  old. 
Reports  of  the  value  of  these  drugs  are 
contradictory,  but  they,  at  least,  offer  a 
means  of  attempted  protection.  M.  B.  D. 
Hatching  Dirty  Duck  Eggs 
Should  one  wash  duck  eggs  before  put¬ 
ting  them  in  an  incubator?  I  do  not 
mean  to  put  them  in  water,  but  use  a  wet 
cloth  to  clean  them  off.  I  can  buy  100 
eggs,  but  they  are  very  dirty,  e.  o.  b. 
Wayne  Co.,  N.  Y. 
I  never  wash  duck  or  goose  eggs  be¬ 
fore  setting,  but  sometimes  scrape  them 
carefully  if  they  are  very  dirty.  In  the 
natural  state,  the  old  duck  leaves  them 
on  the  bank  of  a  stream  where  the  mud 
and  water  cover  them  when  the  water  is 
high.  It  seems  to  be  the  nature  of  the 
bird  to  have  her  eggs  dirty.  After  the 
first  week  or  two  it  is  well  to  sprinkle 
them  every  three  or  four  days  with  luke¬ 
warm  water  or  pour  a  little  warm  water 
in  the  nest.  marie  betts. 
Overfed  Chicks 
My  White  Leghorn  chicks  are  about 
two  weeks  old.  I  am  brooding  them  with 
a  coal  brooder,  feeding  a  ready-mixed 
chick  feed  every  2%  hours,  all  they  will 
clean  up  in  about  10  minutes.  I  have 
milk  mash_before  them  continually  from 
7  a.  m.  to  5  p.  m.,  and  fresh  water  before 
them  always.  When  I  go  to  see  then! 
last  thing  in  the  evening  about  dark  they 
all  seem  huddled  on  one  side  of  canopyv 
about  2 y2  ft.  from  stove.  I  separate 
them  and  make  continuous  chain  of  theiil 
all  around  canopy,  from  the  edge  of  can¬ 
opy  out,  temperature  there  being  about  80 
degrees.  In  the  morning  when  I  go  to 
tend  stove  and  feed  chicks  all  seem  fine. 
About  one  hour  after  first  feeding  and 
putting  mash  before  them  a  number  lie 
on  their  side  and  stretch  their  legs  out 
stiff  and  kick  as  though  unable  to  get  on 
their  feet  again.  If  I  pick  them  up  and 
put  them  ou  their  feet  they  run  about 
one  foot  and  lie  on  their  side  again.  In 
a  day  or  two  they  stiffen  out  and  die. 
What  is  the  cause  of  this,  and  the  rem¬ 
edy,  if  any?  j.  0. 
New  York. 
I  suspect  that  you  are  overfeeding  these 
chicks  and  are  not  keeping  the  brooder 
house  sufficiently  warm.  Cut  down  the 
amount  of  food  given  materially,  and  keep 
the  fire  in  the  brooder  stove  going  at  a 
rate  that  will  prevent  huddling  upon  the 
part  of  the  chicks.  The  temperature  be¬ 
neath  the  hover  should  be  between  90  and 
100,  making  it  warm  enough  just  outside 
so  that  the  chicks  will  distribute  them¬ 
selves  over  the  litter,  without  attempting 
to  pile  up  in  any  one  place.  They  will 
not  necessarily  surround  the  stove  in  a 
circle,  but  should  lie,  well  spread  out,  be¬ 
yond  the  outer  edge  of  the  canopy.  Re¬ 
place  a  part  of  their  food  with  tender 
green  stuff,  and  give  sour  milk,  if  you 
have  it.  Your  description  sounds  as 
though  you  were  stuffing  these  chicks ; 
perhaps  not,  but  underfeed,  rather  than 
overfeed,  for  the  first  weeks.  M.  b.  d. 
Andy  carried  the  mail  to  h  neighboring 
village  in  a  small  one-seated  wagon.  One 
day,  there  having  been  a  death  on  his 
route,  he  was  bringing  the  casket  for  the 
burial,  and  also  had  a  lady  passenger. 
There  was  no  place  to  accommodate  her 
except  on  the  top  of  the  casket ;  so  Andy 
started  out  with  his  passenger  seated 
thereon.  Before  long  he  was  hailed  by  a 
man  with :  “Hi.  there.  Andy !  The 
corpse  is  out !” — Everybody’s  Magazine. 
A  Flock  of  West  Virginia  Turkeys 
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