POULTRY LORE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 18

POULTRY LORE.

SYMPTOMS OF THE CHICKEN CHOLERA. The symptoms of the cholera are great thirst, a nervous, anxious expression and rapid prostration. Its work is done quickly, usually killing the birds in twenty-four hours or less. When it attacks a dock the sick birds must be separated from the others and a thorough cleaning and disinfection of the whole premises—yards, coops, and even the roosts and nests—must be made by Bprinkling with water to every- gallon of which an ounce of carbolic acid is added. Although hundreds of remedies have been proposed, it is doubtful if a safe cure has yet been discovered for this terrible scourge of the poultry yards. The best mode of treating a large flock of fowls is to allow them no drinking water at all, bub add a teaapoonful of strong liquid carbolic acid to a cpiart of water, and use this water for mixing the soft fond, which should consist of two pound of cornmeal, one pound of parched flour, half a pound of fenugreek, and an oudcq of tiread soda. Boil a pound of the inner bark of the red oak tree in half a gallon of water down to a quart. Take a pound of the mixture, pour in a gill of the red-oak bark decoction, stir it well and then add the carbolic water until tho whole is of the consistency of dough, but do not have it too stiff. Give them all they will eat of it; in fact, keep it before them all the time. Those that do not eat should be forced by cramming with,;.a tablespoonful- of the mixture twice a day. This will bo absolutely necessary with turkeys. Give no water until the birds begin to recover. Then odd twenty drops of carbolic acid and a tablespoonful of the fed oak bark solution to each pint of the drinking water. Keep the sick tiirds dry and warm, disinfect all droppings as soon as they accumulate, and bury or barn all dead birds. —American Agriculturist.