Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-15
2fericitlt,lral Department.
CHOLERA IN CHICKENS.
LITTLE FALLS, N. Y.


large losses have occurred in the differ
ent sections of the country to those en-
gagged in the business of poultry raising,
and as Illustrative of this the following
letter is one among many demonstrative
of the fact and the interest felt in the
matter to find some remedy for the dis
ease, so that these serious losses to those
engaged in the keeping of fowls may be
avoided:
LEwIsBURG, Va, May 2lst, 1874.
GEO. WILCOX, Esq, LITTLE FALLS, N. Y.
Dear Sir.-You will please excuse
the presumption of a stranger to you,
but | feel rather acquainted with you,
reading SO many of your writings in
P0merCy's Democrat TO which l am a
subscriber). | have been attempting to
get into the poultry business, and the
cholera or some other disease has broken
up my first effort in which | lost two
out of the three, and the balance | kill
ed to save. Now, | have started again
and 1t is taking my fowls again. | take
you to be a practical man, and thought
by observation or experience you could
give me some information or remedy
for the disease. A great many are dy-
ing in this county. The young chicks
are dying this spring with it. The ma
ture of the disease is-drooping with
wings down; sometimes stand straight,
leaning back and sometimes fall back,
when they die, and become reduced to
a skeleton before dying, and yet eat all
the time. l have had them to drop
dead while eating. / will be glad to
hear from you either by letter or through
PomeroyS Democrat, if you think it
will be OF service to the public. L am
yours most respectfully,
A. ]. HUDSON.
Very many remedies have been sug-
gested for the cure of cholera among
chickens, but only in few cases where
the disease assumed a mild form in its
nature has any success attended the var.
lous medicines suggested for the curing
OF the disease, and consequently new
remedial agents are constantly sought
by those meeting with losses by this al
most universally fatal disease among
their fowls, and it would seem rather
strange at the first glance of the subject
that some one had not discovered a. rem
edy In the large number of preparations
used for the certain cure of cholera
among fowls.
A very strong parallel in disease and
the remedies actually given to cure it to
that OF cholera among fowls is traceable
In the dairylng districts, where for many
years the disease of abortion amopo
COWS bafied all the efforts of the medi-
cal fraternity to find remedy, and the
matter has been entirely given up among
the dailying farmers, as all the remedies
that might have suggested itself to them
have proved to be futile efforts to cure
the disease. After much patient in
curry to ascertain the actual inducing
causes to the disease. on the basis .that
when disease is manifest it is near unto
US, or that disease grows out of Undue
ing causes in proximity to the manner
the animal or even human being is
Kept this guiding principle led to the
discovery that abortion in COWS was in
duced by the violation of the immuta.
bic laws of nature, and the verifcation
OF this existed in the fact that where
COWS were not kept in the manner dairy.
men generally kept their COWS, abortion
did not exist except it was communicat-
ed ny sexual intercourse after the in.
duclng causes to the disease had been
produced; and then the disease wa:
readily communicated, either by a bull
or COW, if allowed to communicate with
other stock ofcows.
There has been much prejudice to
overcome to induce many dairymen t.
change the manner of breeding, feedins
and stabling of COWS, but where dairy
men have changed to correct views upo,
these matters the disease of abortion !;
gradually disappearing from their dair
les' and this is becoming also in a grad
ual manner settled conviction that tn
only method to get rid of abortion il
cows Is to do away with the inducin
causes to the disease; and this is omit
probable will be the only course of &C
ton, which can be taken to get rid o
the cholera in fowls discovering the in
duclng causes to the disease and remoy
ing these causes, and thereby the dis
ease.
1t may be stated in connection wit
this that the disease of cholera in fowl
so far as this vicinity is concerned tina
the disease is wholly confined to tbos
who keep their fowls in a very war,
place, and who feed to large exter
upon ground feed with but yerv littl
animal food, and that but small rang
Is given to the fowls to stroll about. an
that not much pains is taken to chang
OF In breeding and consequently tn
RAPID dcgeneracy of the fowls is an III
movable result, and with all this is a,
companied low state of the vital. eli
culatOry or blood-forming system.
Underground food is the best for fow
Tor the reason that it gives the eron
chance to perform its function or ofie,
which is natural to it, and animal foo
Is also peculiar to its nature when n
FOWL can stroll it will necessarily do