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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1912 
/the STEPHENSON SYSTEM OF 
UNDERGROUND REFUSE DISPOSAL 
Keep garbage odorless 
and out of sight, free 
from flies, sun, rain and 
animals. Place refuse in 
garage or cellar underground 
—a sanitary fireproof dis¬ 
posal of waste. 
Underground 
Garbage Receiver 
Underfloor 
Refuse Receiver 
Spiral Truss Ribbed 
Ash Barrel 
Send for circulars on these and other 
Stephenson products. Sold direct. 
Nine years on market. 
Light weight, rolling 
bottom, no unsani¬ 
tary corrugations 
For ashes in 
the cellar, 
for waste in' 
the garage. 
Use an ash can that will 
stand the rough usage. 
C. H. STEPHENSON, MFR., 20 Farrar St., Lynn, Mass. 
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of carbolic acid and a pinch of sulphur, 
using a feather to apply it and burning 
each one at once after using. Disinfect 
everything with the carbolated whitewash 
or by scalding. 
Cholera is indicated by a profuse green¬ 
ish or yellowish discharge from the 
bowels. The birds are feverish, do not di¬ 
gest their food and the comb is a purplish 
red. Kill the sick birds and disinfect 
floors, perches and drop-boards with the 
carbolated whitewash. Remove the birds 
to clean runs if possible. Turn the soil in 
the old runs, lime it well and plant some 
green crop thereon. 
Diarrhoea in young chicks is due to 
any one of several causes. Too much ani¬ 
mal food, unhealthy runs, or chill may 
cause it. Change the young birds fre- > 
quently to clean runs, giving them dry 
food, mixing powdered charcoal with their 
food frequently. Give to each ailing chick 
two or three drops of sweet oil. 
For old birds, one teaspoonful of sweet 
oil at night, and one-half teaspoonful of 
powdered charcoal in the morning with a 
little cayenne pepper in the feed will help. 
Worms in the intestines may be reme¬ 
died by giving the birds one teaspoonful 
of sweet oil with two drops of spirits of 
turpentine once a day until relieved. 
Swollen crop: When the swelling is 
hard the bird is said to be crop-bound, 
usually due to some obstruction between 
the crop and gizzard. Give one teaspoon¬ 
ful of sweet oil every four hours. 
Soft swelling of the crop often afflicts 
setting hens. It is due to the presence of 
gases and sour fluid caused by the fowl’s 
having little or no grit in the gizzard. 
Hold the fowl so that this fermenting fluid 
runs out at the mouth then give powdered 
charcoal and a dose of one teaspoonful of 
sweet oil three times a day. Feed the bird 
soft food until recovered, then see that it 
gets plenty of grit. 
Staggering or giddiness is another 
chicken ailment. Sometimes young birds 
will be found prostrate, and on attempting 
to rise the head will draw and twist and 
the limbs be unsteady. This condition 
seems often to be due to chill and wet. Or 
it may follow an injury—as a blow—to 
the head or back. Wrap the bird in a bit 
of flannel and give it a warm place, feed¬ 
ing it upon warm milk. After several 
hours, the congestion is usually relieved. 
Cold in the head or throat is indicated 
by sneezing and noisy breathing. Put a 
few drops of spirits of camphor in the 
drinking water. M. Roberts Conover 
Training the Dog—III 
\X 7 HILE no attempt should be made 
* ' during the early training of your 
puppy to have more than one series of 
regular lessons going on at a time, yet 
there is one thing which may be profitably 
taken up at any time without interfering 
with the dog’s regular instruction. I re¬ 
fer to the inculcation of orderly, cleanly 
habits about the house. 
In this matter many homeopathic doses 
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