Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-07
DISEASE OF POULTRY.

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crowding to make them lay. They should
rather be held back for health. Many times
they are crowded with warm feed and pepper,
even through moulting, and fail under the
pressure-lay themselves to death.
I'd. Sitters, or those predisposed to fat, are
over-fed with warm meal, and not enough of
wheat and the like, and taken with apoplexy
or leg weakness, or cannot drop the egg and
die on the nest s..
Sd. By harsh handling, or not having &C
cess to shell.forming material, an egg is brok-
en- before laid, and death is the result.
4th. A few small hens are put with heavy,
vigorous cocks, and are killed.
5th. They go without water perhaps. one
day, and have plenty the next, or they have
foul water to drink all the time, and are soon
taken with gapes. or diarrhea, or cholera.
9Th. They do not have what they want,
and are forced to eat filthy or poisonous mat
ter or
9TH. They do not have change of diet,
and are good subjects for disease. -
9Th. They do not have good, clean, dust
bath and green food, and are troubled with
vermin and lose their feathers
9th. One or two are quarresome and wor-
ry others to death.
10th. They 60 out in all weather, stand in
the rain or snow, or are obliged to roost
where the wind blows on them they get colo,
and have roup.
11th. They don't have animal food, and
they eat their own feathers and eggs.
In any one of the above causes, the first
thing done should be to look for the cause,
and check it at once There are remedies for
most all diseases, but my experience with
sick fowls has been very limited. mention
only those disease most common.
Cholera. -Causes.-Stale and filthy drink
ing water, exposure to hot sun, foul houses
and yards, want of meat and fresh green food.
Sympt mptoms-Great thirst, diarrhoa, drop
pings green, afterward white and thin; fowl
very weak. Treatment-As soon as discover
ed, give cayenne pepper, 2 grains rhubarb, .
grains !; laudaDum, one teaspoonful every four
hours till better. Renovate house and yard /;
use lime freely; clean drinking vessels, etc. !;
let fowls have nothing that is not fresh take
away all sick birds; feed no corn in any shape
Crop Bound..-Symptoms.-Crop hard hen
mopish. Causes.-Passage from crop clogg
ed up. Treatment.-Give one table spoon
full of castor oil work the crop soft, holding
head down.
Diarrhea-Symptoms and causes much the
same as cholera. Give FIVE or six pieces of
chalk as large as bean, and five or six cay.
enne peppers or, every four or six hours,
give in water, eight or ten drops camphorated
spirits. Feed no corn.
Gapss-Symptoms. s.-Gasping for breath
Caused by number Of small worms in wind
pipe, supposed to come from impure water.
Treatment.-Take stiff feather; strip it all
but the tip; dip the end in turpeutiue, and
put it down the wiudpipe, (not the gullet,)
and twist it around.
Roup.-Caused by bird getting wet and
cold, or roostiug in draughts, contagious.
Symptoms.-Sometimes biccoughing or sneez-
ing, sometimes eyes and nostrils badly swollen,
discharging watery substances. Treatment
Remove the bird at once to dry, warm room.
There are several receipts given, to carry out
either of which person needs to be the own
er of drug store When the disease is far
advanced, the quickest and best treatment is
to give the fowl a quick blow, crosswise of the
neck, with the edge of sharp hatchet.
Scurvy Legs.-Caused by parasite work
ing under the scales of fowls legs. Rub
with kerosene or lard and sui phur every three
days till healed. Don't tear off the scales !;
they will come of.-G. NJ. T. JOHNSON. in
Western Rural.
The VALUE OF PA1NT-The Germans,
who are celebrated all over the world for their
industrious habits and thrift, have maxim
that "painting is no expense" This theory, ia
ken in comprehensive view, undoubtedly IS
correct. An occasional coat of paint on the
outside of buildings prolongs their durability,
and on metallic surfaces prevents corroson.
1t is matter of doubt, however, whether board
fences, on account of being exposed on either
side to wind and sun, remain in sound condl-
ton longer by receiving an additional coat
of paint. We have seen them unprotected by
any substance, standing after an existence Of
fifty years. Frame houses and barns are Of
ten painted in dark colors, which are prefera-
BILE to white in this latitude, as they have
tendency to absorb caloric and render the
structures warmer than they would be if
daubed with light or white shade. The
whitewashing of walls, fences and buildings
produces tone of neatness, but after one or
two heavy rains, previously faultless color is
decidedly marred. Paint is more durable in
its nature, and when applied to either build
ings or farming utensils, we'll repays the ex-
pense, and when the latter are refreshed in
appearance by an occasional application, it is
in every respect an advantage.
A Stock BREEDERS OBSERVATION ON
SEx.-I learned by experience that natural
law governs in breeding sexes, and that that
law can be controlled, to great extent, by
men. If, for instance, feed is abundant all
the year round, this law will have the tenden-
cy to increase the consumers, by producing
more females If the reverse is true, as when
feed is short, or not nutritious, the increase
will always be males by a heavy majority,
and thereby diminish the consumers. The
male parent should be kept in condition fully
equaling the dam, as she governs the sex
more than the sire does. A well-fed sow will
always bring more females at the first litter
than at the second. Poor sows are sure to
bring male pigs. A fine bitch is always fat,
but she will not bring many male pups.
Fowls kept on scanty feed will raise from
eight to ten male chicks in every dozen du-
ring Spring months. but later in the season,
from the middle of June till Fall. the reverse.
The reason is because feed is abundant then
on farms. With poultry fanciers, where feed
is abundant all the year round, the first broods
will nearly always average as many females
as males, and sometimes more.-W. H. g., IN
Country Gentleman.
ATTEND TO BUSINESS. Nothing but ruin
stares that farmer in the face who does not
pay personal attention to all the most minute
details of his farm There are thousand