The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-20
POULTRY NOTES.

A Missouri farmer says: We were
| troubled with lice on our chickens.
Two years ago we put in their house
and yard boughs and twigs of cedar
and the lice have disappeared. Cedar
twigs are plenty IN most localities,
and have proved a remedy with US
and may with others.
Darwin saws: "In Europe close
confinement has marked effect on tie
fertility of the fowl; in France it
has been found that with fowls al
lowed considerable freedom 20 per
cent only of their eggs fail to hatch !;
with less freedom 40 per cent failed,
and in close confinement 60 per cent
were not hatched."
In my experience in raising geese
find that it is best to let the goose
take care of her eggs, not remove
them from the nest; nearly every
egg is sure to hatch IN spite of the
old theory that thunder and
lightning will kill the gos-
lings in the shell. l manage
by prudent feeding to keep the
geese from laying until all danger of
the eggs chilling by leaving them on
the nest is passed. | consider geese
the most profitable in the poultry
line, and the most easily raised
An exchange says: can expe..
rienced poultry tancier gives the
following recipe for the cure ofroup:
Wash the eyes with warm water in
which small pinch of sulphate OF
zinc is dissolved. Do this by in
| jecting the wash with a small
syringe. Also wash the mouth and
thoroughly cleanse it with the same
solution. Then drop a pinch of
chlorate of potash down the throat
and give the fowls some warm, soft
food, bread and milk or corn meal
mush, for few days. Keep the
house perfectly clean and fumigate
it with burned sulphur"
find charcoal one of the best re-
medal agents for most intestinal
diseases among poultry and pigeons,
and know that by the use of this
alone, many birds could be saved
that are otherwise lost. To be able
to give the sick bird full benefit, l
take a coop of convenient size, and
having u floor SO as to be dry, cover
the floor with small pieces Of char
coal, and then, after having dosed
the bird by forcing several small
pieces down his throat, shut it in
this coop, and if there is any reason
of hope for a cure, l know of no
better place to look for it. The char
coal is such powerful disinfectant
| that there is no fear of a contagion,
| and oiVes the bird q better and
purer atmosphere to breathe, and
thus escape one of their worst enc
mies-bad air.-POultry Monthly.
When fowls try to eat and in the
act twist their neck on one side and
exhibit difficulty in swallowing, and
sometimes drop their food from
their mouths, it indicates sore throat,
or even diphtheria. When it is
merely an ordinary sore throat the
difficulty may disappear after few
days feeding with soft food, but
with diphtheria there is general
condition of fever which rapidly
weakens the fowl, and it will die in
day unless properly treated. In
all cases of sore throat, diphtheria,
Group or other diseases which affect
the throat, chlOrate of potash is an
effective remedy. Put pinch of il
into the birds throat and let it swal-
it as it dissolves and passes down
the throat, it cauterizes the diseased
membranes and disinfects them; it
also acts as an antisepOc upon the
disordered blood. Soft food should
be given.