DISEASE AMONGST FOWLS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8729, 27 February 1894, Page 3

DISEASE AMONGST FOWLS.

TO TIIS EDITOR OF THB PRKdS. Sir, —With reference to " A Farmer's Wife' 3 " letter, I should say her fowls have chicken cholera. I herewith copy _ome prescriptions from " The Mammoth Cyclopedia," published by F. M. Lufton, 63 Murray street, New York, on the subject. If they do no good, the trial can do no'< harm :— "Chicken Caolera—No. 1. A New Jersey correspondent gives this remedy : Pulverised copperas, sulphur, alum, cayenne pepper, and resin, of equal parts, and mix one teaspoonful in four quarts of meal. Give three days iv succession, then once a week as a preventive. I have seen it used succ2ssIt will not cure these whioh have it, but will prevent spreading of the disease. For a disinfectant, use crude carbolic acid, one teaspoouful in one gallon of water. Sprinkle the hen house often, say about twice a week." | " No. 2. Another correspondent says :— I used a strong tea made of white oak bark, which I used in the drinking water as a preventive. When a fowl was taken sick I used'it pure, giviug several teaspoonsfuls at a time, four or five times a day. I have taken fowls so far gone that they were past ! eating or drinking, and cured them iv a few days with this simple remedy. As a disinfectant I use crude carbolic acid, pouring it on a board in the chicken house, and on the perches, coops, Sec, or anywhere that the fowls frequent. If you will try this plan for awhile, removing all infected fowls from the flock, and keep the. surroundings clean, I think you will soon get'rid of the disease. " "No. 3. The following prescription we find in the Southern Cultivator, and it is -aid to be very efficacious in chicken cholera. Glycerine and water, each a half ounce, carbolic acid, ten drops. When the first symptoms of the disease are apparent, give five drops and repeat at intervals of twelve hours. Usually the second dose effects a cure. A neighboui informs mc that cholera was very destructive .among his poultry, and at my suggestion he tried the foregoing recipe. . He reports that the progress of the disease was promptly arrested,- and in almost every case a cure was accomplished." I lost two fowls from chicken cholera before 1 knew what ie was. I Bayed a third hen with prescription No. 3. " A Farmer's Wiie " aud others should try the above prescriptions. They can do no possible.harm to poultry already as good as dead. ' " . I would ask any of your readers trying the above prescriptions to publish the results of their trials in your valuable papers. I fancy disease amongst farm poultry is caused by dirty water and food. One cause might be, animals being killed and the entrails thrown out and allowed to lie putrifying. Fowls are .omnivorous brutes and will eat almost anything.—Yours. &c, Pro Bono Publico.