Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-07-07
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From the Southern Planter and Farmer.
Diseases or Poultry.

Not unlike the human iaHlliy Dilill-
Yard Fowls are subject to many DIS
eases, sorae Of which yield readily to
medical treatment, while others only
end in death.
One Of the first remedies, or, more
properly speaking preventives is clean; !
illness. Fowls must have warm, well
ventilated lodging quarters to make
them healthy and valuable. Hens that
have toperch in trees, or on poles, ex1
posed to the. drilling rains and esld
winds cannot lay regularly, no.-esi.
their eggs eat or hatch rs well ~ T
they were properly provided for. They
must have good sound food---corn be
ing the principal ample range, fresh
water, and ash Baths to free themselves
Of vermine. They need free access 70
lime; a fair show Of green food, and II
given fresh meat once week during
The winter months, will appreciate IT,
and repay for such repasts by Their
cheerful song and abundant Of eggs.
RoUP-is doubtless the most fatal as
it is the most loathso1ne disease known
to the poulterer. Tt comes with the
difficult breathing, swollen eyes and
faces. and offensive discharges from the
nostrilsi and is produced by filthy quar-
ters and insufficient feeding Ii is some
tines relieved by gentle stimulants,
good nursing, and change of quarters
but being contagious, isieaslest gotten
rid Of BY killing the complaining bird.
GlapEs.is another disease which Of
ten proveslatalto young chickens, and
is generally supposed 10 originate from
one or more small worms in the throat,
picked upwhile, feeding in old yards.
or swallowed whilst irnbibing stagnant
water. An intelligent physician, Mho
has given this disease, some attention,
says the so-called worms arenot worms.
but igaments OF flesh very similar to
those in the throats of croupy children,
and should be treated just as Group is.
The free use of lime in dough made in
meal and wheat bran, with water to
drinl-or a few-grains Of wheat soaked
in spirits of turpenHne-or strong alum
water to drink, have been all used with
Where diseases appear in
poultry yards, the water throughs should
be thoroughly scalded and cleansed ev-
cry day, and if sour, be white washed
inside, to remove the acidity Then
give the birds fresh water two OF three
times per day, and with the diet recon-
mended above will soon disappear.
CHoLERAAor excessive. purging, is
said to be produced by too much salt
food Two eggs and one tablespo 1aful
of pnlxerized alum, made into a paste
by the ad1nixtJre 0f f07TF IS good
remedy. Red Pepper and chalk mixed
in corn dough, is another remedy, ire
quently used with success. Powdered
alum mixed in food, is said to be q pre-
ventive. But the best preventive is
to feed on nothing that is sour or un-
sound.
PIps-is the formation Of hard.sub-
stance on the end and lower side Of the
tongue, and is fatal if neglected too
long. Remove the hardened cuticle as
soon as discovered, give the complaining
bird some stimulating iood-say stale
bread mostened in good ale, a free run
to the lime heap and ash bank-and it
will soon recover.
HARD CRoP.-is another disease COM
mon among fowls, and produced by eat
ing greedily and then drinking freely.
When discovered, pour tepid water
down the throat Of the bird, worl, the
crop gently with the finger and thumb,
SO as not to bruise it, but at the same
time to soften the coagulated food, then
give a spoonful Of castor oil. and the
patient will generally recover in t@en-
ty-four hours.
vERar1N-are more annoying and
more difficult to prevent than any dis
ease. The 1nedicated ash bark may
keep them from grown fowls, and does
partially do so, but to protect yonnG
chickens against them seems impossi-
bic. My Matching boxes are always
thoroughly scalded and cleaned after
being used-ny hens are examined and
medicated with essence Of pennyroys,
Or crysallic soap, OF coal tar watar, OF
kerosene oil, and the nests are also med
cated before being taken, and yet in
The month Of FEBRUARY, out Of fifteen
clutches of chickens, found almost ev-
cry bird lousy when frsttaken from the
nest. And from the size of the vermin,
it would seem as if they came with the
young bird from the she'll Ny remedy
for these pests is, Ito grease each bird,
as well as the hen, With unwashed but
ter, fresh from the churn, and thus far
shat remedy has proved successful. !
have tried flour Of sulphur AMI various
other remedies, but the fresh butter has
thus far proved most officacious. Out
9f fifty-six birds hatched, during the
month Of February (all Brahmas) lost
out three, and they were mashed.
A PREvENr1vE-Mr. John Douglas,
of England, gives the following recipe
as a preventive Of " roup" and gapes"
N chickens and all fowls; and Mr.. G.
NJ. Saunders, Of New York. says it may
be true if perfect cleanliness is main
;ained and the fowls are in other res
poets well treated The experiment
IS a cheap and innocent one, and l
advise our poultcrers to try it. Here
it Is
zone pound of sulphato of iron, one
ounce Of sulphuric acid dissolved in
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