1 June, 1902.) QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 497. 
PREVENTION OF BLACKLEG. 
dD. T. Morgan, Rosedale— 
Question.—Will you be good enough to give me a preventive for 
blackleg in cattle? Farmers in the old country used to bleed hand- 
fed calves before they were turned out to grass in spring time. 
Could you tell me what this was done for ? 
Answer.—Mr. P. R. Gordon, Chief Inspector of Stock, says :—Blackleg, 
or symptomatic anthrax, is such a malignant disease, and its course 
is so very acute, that treatment is generally out of the question. 
Immunity may be gained by protective inoculation. This method 
has been successfully practised for a number of years in more 
advanced countries of Europe and America. The vaccine may be 
obtained through Messrs. Zoellar and Co., Brisbane. 
CORN FEVER. 
Corn Dust, Crow’s Nest.— 
Question.—Can you suggest a remedy for what is commonly called 
“corn fever” ? It affects different people in different ways, but 
mostly the head is affected with a dry burning heat, the skin feels 
dry, and it is a relief to get hot water and inhale the steam. Some- 
times the bowels pinch and feel cramped, and there is an inclination 
to yomit. I have been told there is a remedy for the wheat dust 
when threshing, but do not know what it is. 
Answer.—Corn fever is allied to hay fever. A good remedy is as 
follows :—Antipyrin in 5-grain doses every four hours. Spirit of 
camphor is a good remedy, so is tincture of belladonna. Carbolised 
smelling salts will probably give immediate relief. 
DISEASE IN POULTRY. 
Farwer, Wallumbilla.— 
Question.—W ould you be kind enough to give through your next most 
valuable Journal a cure for what I consider the blight among fowls. 
Tt mostly attacks young chickens. Tirst there comes a white scum 
over the eyes and blinds them. Secondly, the throat is all 
ulcerated inside, and a nasty smell comes from it. I have tried 
sulphur, kerosene oil, castor oil, in fact everything I knew. If you 
would be kind enough to tell me what the disease is, and suggest a 
cure, I should feel very thankful, as I have lost a great number of 
chickens, also a few hens I am only a beginner in poultry farming 
and do not know much about the ailments of fowls. 
Answer.—The birds in question are suffering from ‘ diphtheric roup.” 
‘Treatment :—lIsolate in a house free from draught and give each 
from one-third to half a teaspoonful of Epsom salts; then get a 
bottle of the ordinary chlorate of potash and perchloride of iron 
mixture from the chemist, and, six hours after the salts, give one- 
quarter ordinary adult doses ; feed on good soft food, unprepared, 
but mixed with hot water and a little brandy. hen get the 
following dressing :—Carbolic acid, 1 dr.; sulphurous acid, 8 dr.; 
tincture perchloride of iron, 3 02.; glycerine, 4 0z.; with a camel 
hair brush touch all the parts which show sores morning and 
evening, taking care in anointing the throat not to choke the. bird 
by a drop going the wrong way. This disease is highly contagious 
in the fowlhouse. 
