General News.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2036, 28 February 1887, Page 2

General News.

A correspondent writes to the ‘Town and Country Journal ’ that there is a remedy lor the ills of the poultry yard always at hand in the gum trees around it. He says “ For diarrhaea, dysentry, and cholera la fowls get a quantity of eucalyptus leaves (white or blue gum ; 1 have used both). Dry the leaves sufficient* ly to make them brittle, crush, and make into pills with the aid of a little bread or dough. But as much of the powder (i,e., crushed or powdered ieuvos) as you can lift with a shilling into each pill. Hive one to each fowl j.ltected, and, it accessary, repeat the dose next day. X have not had a

•ingle death amongst my fowls since 1 need the foregoing remedy. I lost seventeen in two days with cholera, and the four I saved out of the twentyone I had could not stand when I gave them the pills. They are now fine healthy birds. 1 have recommend •d the remedy to several people, and ,B no case has there been a single failure. I lost at the same time a collection of Australian parrots from the same complaint, and it was by observing a flock of parrots on the whitegum tree that I found out the remedy. I have not lost a single parrot since. I give an ailing parrot a little powdered leaf in a tube, inserting one end into the throat ef the bird, and blowing the powder into it. Put a few leaves into the cage for them to eat. Fnally I may add that 1 have taken a large pill, composed of blue gum, for a very severe attack of dysentry, which proved effectual and the best remedy I have ever tried 1 have been a severe sufferer. 1 think the eucalyptus is nature’s remedy for the foregoing complaints, and is worth trying-