March 1, 1908 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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No Imecrease im Price. 
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THE OLD FAVORITE 
DIAMOND TOBACCO, | 
Dark Twist, 8s. Ib. 
Aromatic, 3s. 9d. Ib. 
Obtainable at all Stores, or of the Sole Agents— 
W. CORNELL & Co., 55 Rundle Street, Adelaide. 
city of Petaluma, a poultry experiment 
station, to be known as the California 
Poultry Experiment Station. The pur- 
pose of said station shall be the study of 
the diseases of poultry to asertain the 
causes of such diseases; and to recommend 
treatment for the prevention and cure of 
the same, to ascertain the relative value 
of the poultry foods for the production of 
flesh, fat, eggs, and feathers, to recom- 
mend methods of sanitation, and to con- 
duct investigations for the purpose of 
securing results conducive to the promo. 
tion of the poultry intrests of the State- 
This Act shall be liberally construed to 
the end thatthestation hereby established 
may at all times contribute to the general 
knowledge of the public upon the subject 
of poultry husbandry.” 
SSS 
LEG WEAKNESS. 
Chickens which are confined on a 
wooden or stone floor frequently become 
cramped, and. older birds are sometimes ° 
attacked with leg weakness, in conso- 
quence of having outgrown their staength. 
Chickens must be changed from wood or 
stone floor to a run on dry earth ; cram 
and leg weakness generally attend at- 
tempts to rear chickens in a rooin or 
greenhouse. In either case a good rub- 
bing with embrocation will be found 
efficacious, Gord nourishing food is of 
importance in the case of chickens which 
have outgrowu their strength, and a little 
bone meal may, with advantage, be added 
to their ordinary diet. 
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_GAPES. 
This disease is caused by the preaence 
of small worms in the windpipe of the 
chickens, and can be cured by killing the 
worms. In advanced cases the difficulty 
is to-kill the worms without kllling the 
chicken also, Carbolic fumes, produced 
by burning a little carbolic acid in an 
iron spoon over a candle or small lamp 
may be tried with aqvantage 11 the case 
of single birds. 
held in such a position that it breathes 
the carbolic fumes. lf many birds are 
affected the same process may be carried 
out on a large scale by so arranging a 
box that the carbolic acfd can be burned 
onan iron saucer in a lower compartment 
while the chickens are placed in an 
upper one to which the fumes have access 
through an open floor. Care must be 
taken that they are not suffocated. The 
free use of lime in a coop, the lime being 
powdered by being slaked, and being 
stirred up so that the chicsens breathe it, 
is also very sdvanta-eous, but here again 
care must be taben not to suffecate the 
chickens. A tiny piece of mild mercurial 
ointment applied to the top of each 
chicken’s head when taken from the nest 
is a good preveutative. Ground used year 
by year for rearing chickens may besome 
tainted, aid liable to cause gapes. 
SCALY LEG. 
This is really an insignificant ailment 
producing a very unsightly effect, and 
tedious to cure, It is caused hy a para- 
sitic groath affecting the bird’s legs and 
causing them to assume a more or less 
swollen and scaly appearance. In bad 
cases the bird’s legs become covered with 
achalky groath. In most casvs it is caused 
through standing in wet filthy uncovered 
fowl pens. But in other case, it seems 
to be hereditary. The best me ns of pre- 
vention is to keep the fowl pens and runs 
dry and clean. The most simple and 
effectual treatment is to take a bow! of 
kerosene and dip the bird’s legs into it a 
few times at intervals of a day or two. 
On the fourth day soak the legs in warm 
water for ten minutes, and some of tho 
growth will then easily rub off, and the 
natural appearance of the legs may be 
restored by applying a little vaseline: but 
a fortnight or three weeks of this treat: 
ment will be required to effect a cure. 
The chicken must be - 
The Fatm, 
Ensilage. 
By far the cheapest and best way to 
store fodder is in the form of silage, as, 
when cured in this way, it retains all the 
valuable constituents that in the process 
of converting it into hay are thrown off 
into the air, its digestibility thus being 
impaired. Manly Miles, a great American 
writer on ensilage, says :—‘“ When green 
grass. or clover, approachlng to maturity 
is first cut down it contains a considerable 
proportion of starch, sugar. and gum still 
unchanged into woody fibre, as it would 
mostly be were the plant allowed to 
become fully ripe. But when left to dry 
in the open air and under the influence 
of light, woody fibre continues to be 
formed until the plant becomes dry. The 
effect of this change will obviously be to 
render the dry hay less digestible on the 
whole, and consequently less valuable as 
food than the green grass from’ which it 
was prepared. Again, we know that by 
drying many very digestible and nourish- 
ing substances become lsss soluble, and 
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