Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-04-06
Chicken Cholera.

rate the sick from the we'll. Sec
ondly: No matter how much you
have done in the way Of cleaning
the house and yards, have a general
and thorough cleaning up, white
wash the house and strew fresh
lime about the yards. Wherever
the sick fowls have left their drop
pings, spade up the soil and scatter
line freely. Nextly: Turn the
fowls out Of the house, carry in an
old kettle half full of live Goals, put
half pound of sulphur on the
Goals. and close up the house for
two hours, Fumigate with sui
phur as often as twice week while
the disease remains among your
flock. Use the copperas and car
bolic acid solution, that l recon-
mended in a previous article, freely
about the house and all places fire.
quented by the fowls. Give a
double dose Of the Douglass mix
ture every day in the drinking
wafer. Ii you care to use any
thing else in the way of a preven-
tive, you might try coal oil. Give
the fowls teaspoonful apiece, twice
or three times a week. Catch
them and pour it down with a
spoon. Fowls don't take kindly to
feed mixed up with coal oil. In
nine cases out of ten the cleaning,
disinfecting, and fumigating; it
thoroughly done, will check the
disease at once, and you will have
no need to dose your fowls with
preyentives. So much for the well
fowls, and now for the sick ones.
Unless | wanted the sick chick
eus to experiment on. | should use
the Ratchet on my cholera patients,
and bury them out of the way as
soon as possible. But l cannot
persuade every one to use the
heroic remedy, so l suppose l must
look for that sure cure, and no
fooling. What task it is! From
various sources l have collected
more than fifty recipes, all warran-
ted sure cures. One pins her faith
to ginger and cayenne pepper;
another declares that white oak
bark tea is just the thing a third
swears by some wonderful cholera
pills that he offers for sale at fifty
cents per box; fourth believes IN
smart weed tea; a sixth boots at
alum, and says that soda should be
used Instead; a seventh says
laudanum in teaspoonful doses will
certainly cure cholera, the eighth
but what Is the use }? Not one OF
the sure cures' that | have men,
toned amounts to anything where
chicken cholera is concerned. The
writers Of these recipes were evil
IDENTIFY honest. and really believed
taat ;hey had cured chicken chol-
era by using the remedies that
they recommended, but if they did
cure genuine chicken cholera it Is
quite certain that the remedies
which proved successful in their
locality tailed most miserably in
another. Tie trouble is, that il
anything ails chicken, nine peo-
pie out of ten cali the disease 'chol-
era without taxing trouble to in
ycstiglte. the matter and find out
whether they have the genuine
article or not, and If they happen to
cure sick chicken Of any disease
that re.e nbles cholera, they forth
with rush into PRINT and add an
other to the long list Of worthless
sure cures.
Unfortunately for chickens. and
also Tor their owners, there is not q
known sure cue for chicken chol'
era. I can only give yoa few OF
the reme lies that I have selected
as worthy Of trial The FIRST
comes from high medical authority,
and has been tried in several cases
Of genuine cholera with perfect sue
cess:
Two drachms OF calomel, mixed
with one quart OF corn meal. Feed
twice a day. The calOmel acts
promptly on the liver, and is GER
tainIy worth trial.
Another recipe, also from eminent
medical authsrlty-no less than
J. w. johnson, V. Stays:
Fowlrr's solution one ounce, AQUA
9 nmonia one half ounce, water one
gallon, mix Give this to the