Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-05-30

REMEDY FOR Pr" IN Fowls noticed
reply IN your paper OF the 18th uls as to
what would cure - pip 10 fowls, taken from
Bement's work. Now l am a great fancier of
poultry do not agree with Bement. l fnd
that by taking off the,pip immediately after it
Is disc overed In nine Cases out of ten, the 70 |
Will recover.
1t Is easy to tell when fowl has the - pip y
1t will nope and refuse to eat. Take the fow /
and examine It's mouth, and you will find
hard membrane formed ever the tongue, about
half Way up, running 10 sharp point. By
taking your thumb-nsIl and scrapIDg the I'M
der part of the toogue lightly, you will loosen
the scale. go as to enable you to take hold Of
1t; draw 1t carefully towards the end of the
tongoe, and 1t is very easily removed. After
senovIng it, put drop of oil on the tongue
and let the fowl go, and it will commence eat
ing, unless 1t has had the pip for long time :;
# Ir has, 1t will be necessary to make it eat
Is first meal, to give it strength. l have
cured them from a chick two weeks old to u
turkey bbler four years old, and have not
ost one out of dozen attended to In that
way. Some lines have had to remove it two
OF three times from the same fowl IN the course
Of a season.-A subscriber IN Country Gentle
man.
Day EARTH AS DEoDoRIzER FOR POULTRY
HoUsks.-The employment OF dry pulverized
earth the means of deodorlEing poultry
oou.es. appears be worthy of more atten-
ton than 1t has hitherto received. The fact
that from 400 to 500 fowls can by its aid be
Kept in one building for months together, with
ess smell than Is to be found in any ordinary
fowl house, capable of accommodating a dozen
chickens, Is very conclusive as TO its effcacy-
In the building of the National Poultry Com
pany, where the fact has been sscertaned +,
seven or eight fowls are kept in each compart-
ment, twelve fee: by three feet, and yet there
is no smell or trace of moisture.
MIR. Grevelin informs that if much
larger number are put into each run, the
ground becomes mols,, ceases to deOdorize, and
tie birds at once become unhealthy. Ii should
| De stated that the droppIngs that fall from the
perches al night are removed from the runs
next mornlng, and that the dry earth ,nly re
ceives the manure that falls durlng the day
Ibis has its moisture aD-orb,1 81 speedily by
ne earth tina IL ut oncs becJ mes pulveriz ID +,
mixes with the soil. aud Grasses ID smell. So
powerful Is the deodorising effect OF the earth
| that 1t does not require to be renewed in the
runs for many weeks together.
liz appears a question how far this system
may LAY not be extended. Is it applicable
30 private poultry houses? Can it be usefully
employed at poultry-shows? Would IL an
s~er places where it is requisite to keep
| birds III close confinement? Can it be advan-
| tageOusly used In our geological gardens?
The employment OF earth closets as a means
OF utilizing and deodorIzing that which would
ether become offensive sewerage is we'll
known, and we have no doubt that many Of
| our - feathered friends" might be greatly
benefited by an extension of the system that
has been 80 successfully inaugurated at Brom
| ley.-LOndon Field.