Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1881-06-02
No.29

birds must be watched until the sick one is
detected. 10 facilitate the early discovery
of such sick fowls and prevent infection of
the healthy ones it is advisable where prac-
tcaDe, to separate the birds into lots of
two two or three each at the start, and this
separation may always be practiced as a
last resort Where the disease successfully
ueles our eHorts Tor considerable time;
but where this is impossible little patience
will generally enable one to pick out the
SICK before any harm has resulted. AS
soon as the sick bird is removed the excrc-
ment must be scraped up and burned. and
the run must be again sprinkled Wild the
olslhfectant or, the we'll birds may be
changed to fresh ground as before. This
method OF management is to be continued
as long as new cases of the disease occur.
By careful observance of these rules one
| can frequently check the disease with q loss
OF put one or two fowls out Of large flock,
.. Disnfection.-For this disease we have
very cheap and most effective dsinfectant.
1t IS solution made by adding three pounds
OF sulphuric acid to forty gallons of water
/ Tor one-fourth pound of acid to three and
half gallons of water) and mixing evenly
| by agitation or stirring. This may be an
ylled to small surfaces with a common wait
efihg pot, or to larger grounds with bar
rel mounted on wheels and arranged like a
| street-sprinkler. In disinfecting poultry
fr.t
scraped up and removed beyond the reach
OF the fowls; slight sprinklng is not snf-
1clent, but the floors, roosts and grounds
must be thoroughly saturatsd with the 50.
iotion, so that no particle OF dust. however
small escapes being wet 1t is impossihle
70 thoroughly dlsinfect if the manure is not
removed from the roostng places.
oulphuric acid is very cheap, costing at
fetall not more than twenty-five, cents
pound' anda wholesale but x. ~. q, s,,.s
cents; the barrel ofdisinfecting solution can
therefore, be made for less than dollar and
should be Thoroughly applied. 1t must be
remembered, too, that sulphuric acid is
dangerous drug to handle, as when undi-
iuted, it destroys clothing and cauterizes the
flesh wherever it touches The safest wav
Is therefore, to take tiye-gallon keg near
~ iull OF water to the druggist and have
MIN place the strong acid in this the con-
tents of the keg may then be safely trans
ported to the barrel of water.
=. Fumigation.-In those cases where the
disease has been raging considerable
length of time the feathers become saturat-
ed with the contagion, and it is necessary.
before placing the fowls on the disinfected
run, to put them in close building and
thouroughly tumigate them with sulphur.
For this purpose pan of burning Goals is
taken and flour of sulphur thrown upon
them as long as the air can be breathed
without danger of sutfocation. When the
disease is recognized at the outset this is
not necessary.
Ihe experiments on which the above reo-
ulatlons are founded will be detailed in fu-
ture reports Of the Agricultural Depart
ment; they are sufficiently numerous 10 be
worthy of the fullest confidence.
The value of the method of preventive in.
oculation or vaccination discovered by Pas
teur has not yet been decided bur in view
OF the comparative ease with which the af.
lection may be controlled by the measures
detailed above, we doubt it it ever can be
adopted as means ofpre-
venting this particular disease.
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