304 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. {1 Noy., 1902. 
Gout, Rheumatism, and Cramp: Damp houses. 
Leg Weakness: Inbreeding and overfeeding. 
Bumble Foot : High perches. 
Scaly Legs: Vilthy and damp quarters. 
99-bound: Due to temporary derangement of the oviduct, abnormal 
size of the egg, or in some cases to malformation. 
Inflammation of Bowels: Due to too long-continued stimulating food, 
overfeeding, and intestinal worms. 
Gapes : Caused by worms in the windpipe. 
Lice: Due to non-removal of droppings. 
Recently a common trouble among fowls, especially on farms, has shown 
up—yviz., sudden and unaccountable death. Often in the morning they are 
found dead under the roosts without any apparent cause. The sudden demise 
of poultry in this manner is attributed to apoplexy, and the numbers dying. 
from the disease will depend largely upen the condition of feed and the care 
they get. It is either cau-ed by a weak state of the bloodvessels of the brain, 
or so great a pressure upon them that they break, letting the blood into the 
brain. owls that are over-fat are liable to this disease, and the extreme heat 
of summer is also responsible. The bird is seldom noticed until dead. A 
remedy is to reduce the flesh and remove the conditions which cause it. 
Feeding little grain and other food and letting the hens run out on grass runs is. 
a good remedy, being careful to feed neither corn nor fat meat. 
The remedy for roup is, first, to isolate the bird, as roup is contagious. 
Put it in a warm roomy pen about 8 feet square. Wash the affected parts with 
warm water, syringe the nostrils with warm water or oil and a little carbolie 
acid—say, 1 in 60 parts. Many use kerosene with success, but this is a case: 
of kill or cure. Sprinkle powdered chlorate of potash or sulphur down the 
throat once or twice a day, and swab out the throat with a feather, using diluted 
Condy’s fluid. Keep the bird up by feeding on soft food—bran and pollard, 
or oatmeal and gravy. Give a teaspoonful of sulphate of iron to every quart 
of drinking water. If a bird is very badly affected, the best thing to do is to 
kill it. 
When a hen is egg-bound, foment with hot water and administer a table- 
spoonful of warm treacle. 
For inflammation of the bowels (enteritis), give a grain each of opium and 
calomel occasionally, after first giving a little salad oil and an injection of salad 
oul. Bread and milk should form the sole diet. 
Sealy legs are caused by a kind of mite. Do not apply kerosene; it is too 
severe, and may lame a bird. ‘The best way is to soak the legs in warm water 
for five minutes, and then rub with a stiff brush. After that, rub in a mild 
arsenical wash or sulphur ointment made of LO parts lard, 3 parts sulphur, 
and 1 part crystallised carbolic acid. A cure will be effected in three or four 
days. 
z Gapes may be cured by administering one teaspoonful of turpentine and 
one of assafcetida in a warm bran mash to each twenty-five birds. A camphor 
pill about the size of a wheat grain pushed down the throat has often giyen 
good results. 
For lice, the dust bath and the use of tobacco dust for the house with 
powdered sulphur are good remedies. Spray all roosts and boxes with a hot 
kerosene emulsion. 
Cholera there is practically no cure for. 
For the treatment of other diseases I must refer you to standard works on 
poultry, as space will not allow me to enlarge on the subject. 
There is one thing I should have mentioned, and that is the value of green 
bone, fresh cut. It makes excellent bone-food, and is a general invigorator 
and growth-forcer. The results of bone-feeding are seen in a very few days in. 
the renewed vigour, health, and appetite, and in the increased ege production, 
