The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29
Poultry CheIer.-Irss as Preventive

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As q general rule, all doctoring after
the fowls are attacked with the cholers
is useless or nearly 80. When the disease
has manifested itself, the trouble is sc
far developed as to be beyond control
with all ordinary treatment.
The disease is caused by q specific
miasma or poison in the air, assised pow.
erfully by auxiliary causes of sanitary
and dietetic character. These predis.
posing causes are within the control Of
poultry raisers, and by a proper manage.
men: of them, and the systematic ad-
ministrstion of simple tonic and astring.
ent remedies, the special miasm will no.
infect the flocks.
SQuinine is as nearly specific remedy
for fever and ague, and other malarial
diseases, as any medicine can be. In
communities where these maladies pre-
vail, the people protect themselves by a
regular and systematic use of the medi-
cine. So in poultry cholera, which is a
malarial or miasmatic disease, small
doses of sulphate or iron regularly adj
ministered, will, in connection with
proper sanitary and dietetic measures,
protect the focEs.
The sulphate of iron, or "copperas" is a
salt composed of a chemical combination
of sulphuric acid and protoxide of iron.
Unlike the sulphate of copper, "blue Wit.
riol," or the sulphate of zinc, "white
vitriol," the sulphate of iron is not pois.
oRous in small doses In its medicinal
properties, sulphate of iron is tonic, as
tringent, and antiseptic. When taken
internally it furnishes iron to the blood.
which is one Of the normal elements of
this fluid, besides moderately but dura-
bly, exalting the vital functions. 1t
promotes the APPETITE, invigorates diges-
ton, augments the various secretions,
gives increased firmness to the muscles,
and operates upon the nervous centess.
especially those of organic life, elevating
the various functions over which they
preside, and may be said to act as a
universal excitant to the functions ard
to promote the vitality of the system.
These properties it posses as tonic; bur
the medicine is tonic and astringent
combined. In its astringent capacity it
acts directly upon the mucous coat of
the stomach and bowels, and having a
tendency to check incipient diarrhea /;
acting moreover, as all astringents do, in
increasing the appetite and invigorating
digestion. As disinfectant it is much
used in solution, or mixed with slack
lime and applied to all places where
offensive offal matter of any kind is I'M
decomposition. 1t is fair to
infer that when taken as medicine and
absorbed into the blood, it will act as an
antidote to blood poisoning, in the same
manner that Quinine is antiGotal to the
poisoning Of the blood produced by the
ague malaria.
1t would seem, therefore, that sulphate
of iron is calculated to meet all the indi-
cations presented in guarding against
the cholera. When regularly admins
tered as medicine, it promotes the
health and the thrift eff fowls by stimu.
lating and exalting the vital functions.
A man or an animal can more success
fully resist disease of any kind when his
physical condition is the best A
healthy, vigorous animal may be exposed
to disease with less danger than weakly
sickly one. In the one case the us rita
will successfully resist infection. Where
IS, in the other, the conditions are
favorable to the Judgment of the germs
of the disease.
The proper way to administer medicine
to poultry is in solution, Take bottle
or a jug that will hold, say half a gallon
Of water; put into the vessel one ounce
Of copperas, and few drops of sulphuric
acid, and fill up with water. As coon as
the salt is dissolved it Is ready for Use.
Our method is to put it into the
feed when it is mixed. For
every fifty head, large and small, one gill
or SO of the solution is added and we'll
stirred into the feed. Some persons give
in water, but we prefer giving in the
feed.-Prdcficdl Farmer.