CHEMISTRY AND POULTRY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 31

CHEMISTRY AND POULTRY.

M'Kenny, Christchurch.) While the chief drug in the fancier's medicine chest will always be the simplr axe, the inoreasizi/g value of live stock nowadays makes every bird worth saving, if possible. One of the drugs, doctors are using freely at present, is peroxide of * hydrogen', and I have found its uisefulnesß is by no means confined to the human race, but that it is also a real good thing for the fancier to haveJiandy. Briefly put, peroxide of hydrogen is simply water, with an extra amount" -of oxygen in it. On being applied to'any gangrenous place it freely " parts* with\ the extra oxygen, which seizes an</ burns, iip. all the poisonous matters, leaving the healthy, tissues clean and sweet. • - »-• . In the case of roup, catarrh, diphtheria', canker, or coldls in fowls, if the throat >is - swabbed, out -with -a solution of one "part of peroxide of hydrogen to two of water and a little of the same solution forced into the birds' nostrils, the fre& oxygen simply eats away the matter The" appli-'-cation * should be used night md morning till all foaming 1 eases, and 'the parts fch«D painted wifcb . borax arid, glycerine. The solution is perfectly safe, and. "if swallowed, does not harm the bird in the least a big advantage over tho many» applications in use. The ordinary internal treatment, of ' course, for the disease should be used as usual. For festering wounds on the comb, or elsewhere, equal parts of the peroxide and water should be dabbed on till the healthy tissiite is clean, and then lasoline* or \-aselinc-smeared on..

For scaly legs one painting of the per-o-sido will kill the parasite. On ordinal? stock or for human use the peroxide if poured on fostering i wound? neat till the ' foaming ceases, and a healing oiijtmc.it theu applied. — New Zealand Poultry Journal.