POULTRY NOTES.

Lake County Press, Issue 980, 19 September 1901, Page 5

POULTRY NOTES.

[Bv ax Expert.] HOW AXD WHAT TO FEED. Common sense feeding—that's the kind. Give greenstuff, and—greenstuff and —more greenstuff. Don’t have the mash too hot- given thus it causes colds. Sow rape, etc, for winter green fodder now. It is economy to feed only the host. Do not mix grit in the soft food. One kind of food, all lhe time, doesn’t pay. The poultryman needs to have “ grit in his crop.” Barley is an egg producer. Wheat is tin leaning grain.

Oats an* U it sufficiency appieciated. An* y>u using lucerne L liaff fur greenst u 11' ? T.ibl ■ .‘•craps are the kind of food that a hird relishes and gives a proto on. Green cut bone is indiip msible if a hen is to do her best in the matter of eg” production. Over 80 per. cent of a fresh egg is water in its pur.st state. Do your hens get a sufficient quantity of this great egg former 1 Access to long tough grass after they have been deprived of greenstuff for some time results in crop bound fowls. Keep the bone cutter clean ; it should not smell like a slaughter-house. Disease—Prevention And Cure. Don’t inbreed. Have healthy fowls. Decapitate the diseased fowls. Sunshine is better than medicine. Why don’t you eradicate scaly leg 1 True roup is highly contagious. Have you forgotten the disinfecting value of sulphur burned in the hen houses 1 Inbreeding has closed up more poultry enterprises than any other agency (says Southern Poultry Journal). Colds are but little trouble if promptly attended to, but if neglected usually end in the death of the affected bird. Dry sulphur blown down the bird’s throat is recommended as a roup cure by an exchange. Continually feeding spices and condiments weakens the birds and makes them more susceptible to the attack of disease. One-half teaspoonful of nux vomica in each pint of drinking water is about the best cure for indigestion known. Tardy or half hearted treatment is about as good as none at all. Be energetic always. “ What a pretty pullet 1 Isn’t it a pity she has scaly legs?” How often one hears similar remarks. A piece of asafeerida about the size of a sixpence tied in a piece of muslin and put in the drinking water will serve as a splendid safeguard against colds. Scabs or sores on the comb can be cured by bathing with a solution of carbolic acid crystals (five grains) in water (1 pint), and then anointing the sores with carbolated vaseline. The following recipe for making waterproof whitewash, which will no doubt be appreciated by our readers, is taken from The Feather: “ Slake in a close box. When slaked pass through a sieve. To every six quarts of the lime add one quart of rock salt and one gallon of water. Boil and skim clean. To every live gallons of this add by slow degrees three quarters of a pound of potash.. Coloring matter may be added if desired. Apply with a paint biush. This wash looks as well as paint and is waterproof.” Rattling or whistling denote bronchial affections (says W. Thco. Wittman in The American Poultry Advocate). Tincture of aconite every few hours will cure inside of twenty, four hours. Real bronchitis is a speedy and almost certain death. Comb turns black, tail goes down, fowl is listless and will not eat, and if that portion of its body where the lungs lire is put to }our ear you wili have astonishing proof of the tumult going on within. Bring at once to a warm room of continuous even temperature. Use the aconite, and a tea made by pouring boiling water on llax seed (linseed) one ounce to a pint of water, keeping it hot, but not boiling, two or three hours. The mucilagious liquid can safely be given in spoonfuls. The second day instead of the aconite, intrate of potash one grain three times a day cau be given. After the worst symptoms disappear the bird must be coaxed to eat, which may be difficult. One grain doses of quinine, ten drops of cod liver oil, two drops of nux vomica, three times a day are valuable. Bread and milk and shredded raw meat are foods more readily taken, and corn, etc., should not be given.