202 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [L Ava., 1901. 
that the disease can only be planted either naturally or artificially on an abraded 
surface. The treatment consists in bathing the invaded parts with warm water 
and soft soap, and then applying some ointment to destroy the parasite. 
Nitrate of silver well rubbed into the comb and wattles has been found of great 
benefit ; an ointment of 5 per cent. of the nitrate of silver in lard may be used 
for this purpose. Red oxide of mercury one part, to lard eight parts, has 
proved an excellent remedy if used for several days. It is most essential to 
well foment the diseased parts previously to applying the ointment, and to 
remove as far as possible all the favie crusts with a blunt knife. One cannot 
be too careful in examining a fresh bird before turning it into the run, which, 
needless to say, should not be done if any signs of fayus are noticed upon it. 
Should the disease appear, the bird should be at once isolated and treated, as 
when the parasite reaches the feathered tracts it is so much more difficult to 
eradicate.—Lachange. 
PLYMOUTH ROCKS. 
The Feathered World says of the splendid Plymouth here reproduced, 
that their colour and distinct barring is as near perfection as it is possible to 
get. The cock is a big, broad-backed, 14-months-old bird, of excellent shape, 
perfect in his barring all through, whilst his tail and flights are totally free 
from white, a great failing with many of the adult barred Rock cocks of the 
present day, as Australian breeders are well aware. This grand pair of fowls 
has won for the owner, Dr. Jackson, of Carnforth—the pretty little North 
Lancashire town on the shores of lovely Morecombe Bay—the £50 Manchester 
Cup, chief amongst prizes too numerous to mention. 
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