The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-25
For the Anderson Lntelli9eacer.

G0lck6U OuOlCI IVY
DEAR HoYT: You very we'll know the great
solicitude of our better halves, and housewives
generally, on this subject. "Chicken Cholera"
seems to be q mysterious disease, and as much
IS has been written and published in our pa
pers on the cause, &C., we are yet left in the
dark. There is no doubt that predisposing or
producing cause of this very fatal and much
dreaded disease exists. Who shall have the
credit of the preventive discovery
In conversation a few days since with the
wife Of an industrious and prosperous farmer
on the subject of poultry, inquired:
"Do you get many eggs this winter Z"
sYes-if was to say at least FIVE hundred
I.should be not far wrong"
"Have you had the chicken cholera at any
time recently among your flock ?"
aNo, sir; Ihaye preventive of that disease" )"
'eDo inform me, madam, for that is what l
am seeking"
"WeI, sir, you know that if pigs are allowed
to lie in the dry dust under house it will
produce disease and DEATH"
eyes, madam, and myriads of tieas, besides"
eaWell, sir, I believe the same cause produces
cholera in fowls, and to prevent it, I have my
houses s-eyen if have to tear up the floors
raked and sweeped under twice year, and
after raking and sweeping, sprinkled with cold
water"
"a good remedy for feas, madam, where
hogs have been allowed to sleep under the
house; but new as to chicken cholera"
"Well, sir, try it. Here is my neighbor, MIR.
S., in two hundred yards of my house, losing
chickens weekly-daily, I may say. 1 lose
none,n
Mr.. Editor, please excuse me if have given
more details than need have done; but all
our discoveries are not made through scientific
Investigations. "Tau oaks from little acorns
grow" Let us not reject or repudiate any
proposition until we have by investigation de-
monstrated its falsity. AS quacks say of their
prescriptions, eff it does no good it will do no
harm" If it does not benefit chickens, it may
those above the floor Of house of much de-
caying vegetable matter and other filth under
it. And as we are on the subject of poultry,
in which every good housewife is interested,
allow me to make an extract or two from our
highly appreciated paper, the American Agri-
eulturist sent me by friend. On the subject
of poultry, the editor says:
@Clean the house, sprinkle with crude car
bolic acid and water. Carbolic soap, rubbed
on the roosts; finds its way into the feathers,
and kills the lice. Whitewash all the wood
work, and if a little carbolic acid is added, so
much the better" Again he says: "Now that
the season has arrived for the raising of chick
ems, it is we'll to know that the powdered sui
phur of the druggists is the cheapest, handiest
and best thing yet discovered for killing para
sites that infest setting hens, and find their
way to fresh pastures upon the chickens as
soon as the latter are Matched. Many times
people complain that when their chickens are
aweek old, they droop and die from the attacks
of large lice, which literally cover the heads of
the, birds. If examination is made earlier, it
will be found that the insects have taken up
their abode upon the chickens heads while
stiilin the nest, for they forsake the hen, pre-
ferring the chickens 1t is bad business to
have to catch the chickens and hen for treat
ment after they have left the nest, when the
remedy can be applied with so little trouble
before Matching begins. A week or so after the
hen has been given her clutch of eggs, sprinkle
them and the whole of the nest, and the straw
fora little distance around it, with the sulphur
when the hen is of. The night following at
uend to the hen herself by lantern light. Dis
turb her just enough to make her bristle. up
her feathers, and then dust sulphur we'll down
to their roots. Go over her whole body thor
oughly, excepting the parts in contact with
the nest, and lift each wing and scatter pinch
and attend to head, neck, and tail. 1t will not
injure the hen in the least, nor the chickens
when they are Matched. We repeat the opera
ton at the interval of week, though, per-
haps one application is sufficiently and have
never found the slightest trace of vermin upon
hen, or chickens afterwards. Use two small
handfuls. It costs little, either in money or
trouble Tobacco, snuff, grease, carbolic pow
der, ETC., are not to be compared with sulphur
for this particular purpose, and the best dust
bath privileges for the hen are not to be relied
upon alone"
desire, Mr.. Editor, when the ladies come to
the polls they will not send me to Congress-
and more especially to our own Legislature, for
this valuable information. But smaller favors
will be thankfully received.
IF the editors of the Keowcc Courier and
Pickens Sentinel think this article worthy, they
will please copy, changing the address.
Truly yours,
S., Of Psndleton.
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