THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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PLEASANT VIEW FARM, HAPPY VALLEY. 
(From a photograph taken by Mr. R. W Clark.) 
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Diseases of Fowls. 
(Continued from last Issue). 
—Dropsy.— 
The chest, crop, brain, wattles, and 
other portions of the fowls body are sub- 
ject to dropsy. Abdominal dropsy has 
already been dealt with. After this the 
most frequent seat is the fowl’s wattles 
aud is most comnion in the Mediterranean 
breeds, and often the result of injury, 
The wattles assume an enormous size. 
_ The simplest remedy is to make a clean 
cut in the lower part of the swelling, when 
the liquid will flow out. The cavity 
should then be syrinyed out with warm 
water, into which a few drops of Condy’s 
Fluid has been mixed. Following this a 
teaspoonful of cold water and a few drops 
of iodine should be syringed into the 
wound, which will heal up in a few days, 
- and no more trouble ensue. 
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Dropsy of the-crop can usually be 
relieved by placing the fowls head 
downward, and squeezing the crop 
_ gradually. Chest dropsy is rarely 
detected, except by post mortem ex- 
amination. 
(To be continued ) 
Buying Poultry. 
The poultry industry owes much to the 
fancier, fcr had the poultry farmer no 
source from which to acquite new blood 
he would soon find his profits dimishing. 
The fancier aims to keep the breed or 
breeds in which he is interested up to tho 
highest standard of perfection, and little 
does the general public realise 
and expense which this entails: 
the time 
No one 
will ever succeed asa breeder of prize 
poultry who does not possess, in addition 
to a genuine love for his feathered pets, 
July 1, 1909 
n unlimited amount of patience and 
perseverance. One year his birds carly 
everything before them, but next seaso? 
the other man is successful, and appro 
priates all the honours. 
Even with the most prominent and 
successful exhibitor, the number of young 
stock it is necessary to hatch and 
rear, from which to select a team that will 
do him justice in the show pen, incurs 4? 
expense which the casual yisitor at @ 
poultry show would hardly credit. if 
there is an average of five fowls out o 
every hundred reared, possessed of 
sufficient merit to do their owner credit 
in the show pen, that owner can conside 
himself fortunate indeed, whilst in som? 
breeds, such as silver or gold-laced 
Wyandottes, owing to the difficulty 1? 
breeding well laced plumage, the averas® 
is much lower. 
Small wender is it, therefore that thé 
fancier asks a price for his winnors that 
the lay mind thinks extortionate, but 
when all expenses are taken into account 
even if the breeder were to sell all his 
winning birds at these figures he would 
not make a profit. Breeders of the 
present day value their reputation * 
highly that they will not keep an inferi® 
specimen, but kill all ‘culls’ as soon ® 
they are old enough for table pu” 
poses. Every season lots of people #? 
very anxious to buy these ‘culls’ at the 
price of table birds, but the fancier who 
desires to make or maintain a prominev! 
place amongst the ‘fancy’ steadfastly 
refuses to sell them alive, as nothiné 
would more quickly lead to his undoi?s 
than to allow to be seen by the public * 
lot of ‘scalaways,’ which are declared by 
their owner to be bred direct from nS 
and-So’s’ birds. Sooner than let th? 
happen, would any leading breeder wrin8 
the neck of every bird not up to a reasoh” 
able standard and burn them. 
Thus it is that no rubbish ever leaves® 
reliable breeder’s yard, and so the publi¢ 
are protected from having inferior poultry 
foisted upon them. When a good quality 
of pouliry is required, let the buy oe 
patronise a reputable fancier and be PRES. 
pared to pay a fair price for @ gor 
article, and both parties to the deal will b? 
satisfied, 7 
-— Queensland ‘Agricultural J ournal 
