~ April i, 1909 
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2) Fhe Poultry Yards: * 
Diseases of Fowls. 
G BRAGSHAW, in the ‘Agricultural 
=i Gazette of N.S.W.’ 
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(Continued from last issue.) 
; —Anxemia.— 
This means a deficiency or poverty in 
‘ the blood, and there are many strains or 
families of fowls which sre thoroughly 
Memic, The fowls have a pallid appear- 
ANce, the comb and wattles pale, and the 
Bi legs usually cold; they have a_ bloodless 
0k, while the walk is liscless and 
Tanguia, 
ie The canses are frequently insanitary 
“nditions, overcrowding, innutritious 
5 food, &e, Fowls of this sort should b, 
ot rid of, treatment being both expensive 
end Useless, for even should a cure bo 
SHectea, E patched-up, doctored 
Meci ; . 
Pecimens will make wretched breeding 
‘Stock, y 
these 
— Ajoplexy.— 
ih, frequently the breaking of a blood 
Bee sel, Owing to undue fulness there. The 
—8eang. ‘ ; 
ee into or upon the brain 
Ber Apoplexy is a diseased condition of the 
k “Teaking of the vessel allows blood to. 
substance. The causes usually are over 
fatness, stimulating food, while some 
authorities say it may be hereditary. Dr 
Woodriffe Hill says:—tThe exciting 
causes are, violent exercise, intense 
heat, derangement of the digestive 
organs, over-straining in laying hens, 
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which are frequently found dead on the 
nest. : 
The symptoms are, the bird falls to the. 
ground in a state of partial insensibility 
and is sometimes found dead. In cases 
where the fowl staggers and falls down, tke 
simplest remedy is to pour cold water 
over its head, when there will likely be a 
recovery. Bleeding is also recommended. 
‘This can be readily done by making an - 
incision in the vein und r the wing, and 
~ taking say, a tablespoonful of blood from 
‘afull-grown fowl. Purgatives should also 
be given. 
Apoplexy is usually associated with old 
fowls, often show birds, but even when 
_ cases are successfully treated, the trouble 
may return, and each time it is more 
severe. Like several other fowl troubles, 
the cheapest and most effective way to 
treat apopletic subjects is to get rid of 
them. ; ; Hie 
—Ascites, or Abdominal Dropsy.— 
Exhibition hens, if of good quality, un— 
like market sorts, are often kept till they 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
of the fluid. 
-dropsical have no right in breeding 
made during the 
feature,’ he said, was that 25 pens of 
35 
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becomo diseased, meet with an accident, or- 
die of old age. 
A frequent disease, particularly in old | 
fat specimens; is that known as ‘down 
behind.’ The Abdomen becomes very 
large and pendulous, sometimes touching 
the ground. One form of this is 
abdominal dropsy. The enlargement is 
frequently minus feathers, looks shiny, it 
feels soft, and is movable. The accumu 
lation is of a thin watery nature, and is 
sometimes colourless, or it miy be straw 
coloured. The causesare varied. Several 
scientists who have studied the disease- 
have disagreed as to its cause; the majority 
however, think it arises from an escape of 
the blood 
the tissues or into some cavity, as the 
abdomen. 
water from vessels into- 
This form of dropsy can be relieved by 
a puncture with a surgeon's hollow 
needle, when most of the liquid will run 
out, but it must be remembered that this 
is only a temporary relief, there being 
always a tendency to further accumulation — 
Further, birds that are. 
yard; while even if of otherwise exhibition 
quality, the enlargement warrants the- 
fowl being disqualified from securing a. 
prize. shane 
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Eeg-Production Extra- 
ordinary. 
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When interviewe! by a local scribe, after. 
reviewing in detail the results of the: 
1908 9 egg laying competition at Rose- 
worthy, Mr. D ff. Laurie, the Govern- 
ment Poultry Expert, expressed the - 
liveliest satisfaction at the splendid records 
year. ‘A notable 
White Leghorns, representing 150 birds, 
averaged no fewer than 208 eggs per hen. 
Many writers in poultry journals, chiefly 
in England, have disputed the statement 
that the 200 egg hen is in existence. Asie 
against that we have the proof before us. 
that 25 pens of White Leghorns have put 
up an average of 208 eggs per hen. Re- ; 
cently I noticed on the frontispiece ihe 
‘Poultry, one of the best known poultry 
