Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-12-28
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Management of Poultry.

PIP is caused by want Of clean water, or by
drinking dirty water in dry weather. Cure
remove the white blister found upon the tongue
and wash it vita warm vinegar and water
feeding the bird for a few days with soaked
bran and lettuce, or cabbage chopped very fine
FIuS is cured by pills of the yok of an egg
bold hard, mixed with bruised hemp seed, OF
boiled barley diluted with wine.
Costiveness, the reverse ef tie former, is cured
by giving them beet root chopped fine, or bran
and water with little honey mixed.
Vermin may be destroyed by fumignting tho
roosts with birthstone.
Scab and Itch are cured by feeding them with
moist bran.
Cramp is cacsed by cold and damp. When
afflicted the birds should not be allowed to roost
ont Of doors, and the roost should be well sc-
cured and warm-rub the legs and feet with a
It'll" fresh butter.
Ahscoss frequently comes upon the rurnp, and
is caused by heat of blood, or torpid stomach,
which corrupts the mass of blood. Open the
abscess and press ont the matter. Feed them
with chopped beet root or lettuce, with some
bran mixed, moistened with honey, or molasscs
and water.
Fowls should not be allowed to roost in very
large numbers together, but where great quan,
titles are raised they should be kept in locks Of
not more than one hundred. They should be
kept very cleany
Warmth, with freedom from damp, is the
great secret in the care of fowls. Their food
should be frequently changed, and green food
often mixed with their meal, shorts or bran. In
diar meal and molasses and water will iatcn
poultry faster than any ether food. Clndcrs
should be sif,ed for them to roll in, which will
free them from vermn, and they should never
be without a supply ofclean water For drinking
Never give them warm or hot food, which
causes them to become crop bound. Hemp and
buckwheat, or wheat occasionally, are good s,i-
muants.
So far as food is concerned, every farmers
wife throughout the country knows what is pro-
per. One great danger arises from their yora-
city of appetite inducing them to eat too much
of food too nutritious for delicate digestive or
gans, whereby they become sicky, or what is
commonly called crop bound. Simp.e as the
remedy for this evil may appear, it is somewhat
difficult to put in practice where large nun bers
are fed together.
As regards attention to cleanliness, and their
other common wants, such as regularity of feed
ing, aud an abundan, supply pure water no.
thing need be soid they can scarcely live, GER
tainy not flourish, without these necessary re-
guiremenls being strictly attended to.
Under, however, the best management, and
the greatest precautions used against their va
rlous ailments, many will perish. 1t is Truth,
however, that almost all the diseases If poultry
arise from atmospheric causes.
With respect to medical treatment, applied
to the diseases of poultry, but little regarding
its efficacy Is known. The nostrums and mode
of Treatment adopted throughout the country,
tInether with the greater part Of what has been
written upon the subject, is a tarra9O Of nCn-
sense and absurditv. lrshelter, warmth, food
and cleanliness, conacnial to their habits, will
not preserve them in health, but little reliance
can be paced in medicine
Great care is necessary to protect poultry
tron the rovages OF the skunk, the muskrot,
the fox, and other animals who possess taste
50 refined as to prefer chicken to coarser food
And II insure complete success on large scale
suitable buildings should be provided
A close room, which should be made 10 eX.
c}ude the winrry tross, aud also admit the balmy
hrecZc of summer should be prov Ided Tor the