ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 17

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

X.\.Z.—The symptoms you describe point to the bird having had a corn on the sole or the foot, which ia now inflamed, and contains pus. The body of the bird would be quite fit for human consumption. MINORCA.—If the chicks have not got white diarrhoea, which, you will be able to see, then they have a form of paralysis •closely allied to infantile paralysis. It is a difficult matter to say whether it is contagious or not. Sometimes the birds SINCERITY.—A really good mash depends in its eoiuiHjuition to a certain extent on tne present condition of the birds. The foundation might be two-thirds pollard, one-thud bran, and a tenth part original albumen meal. Finely-ground maize could with advantage be added if the birds are not fat. Finely-ground barley meal makes a'profitable-change from the maize meal. AXXlons.—ln all probability tlfe bud has a watery cyst; in other-words, drr.psy REMUERA.—The bird's diflirUty an breathing and the "catching- t r wheezl n rnJSE \ 'Ji in all P r °baba»t> due to a growth at the entrance ot tlie bronchial tube. Get someone to li«»M the bird for .you. open its mouth, put your linger and thumb on the outside e' the throat, and lift the throat toward* the mouth. You will then see the entreuce to the bronchial tube, which is a silt-like opening, and if there is a growth you will be able to discern it Remove it with a piece of end! plaCo witli a caustic TO SKVERAI, CORUESPO.VDLWTS—Mv diwißion is final. I would not leave my preseut work to organise the noultrv very S h^h eVen " tho rem "Oration were