Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-08-14
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DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES.

writer in the Poultry Keeper, Chicago,
discusses certain complaints and difficulties
as follows:
Whenever you have a northeast storm,
with damp, chilly, dlsagreeable weather,
look out for the roup Roup is to the fowls
what heavy colds are to human individuals,
and as we may have cold in the head, cold
on the bowels, sore throat, and other dis
turbances from cold, the term "roup' cov-
ers them all. Roup in some forms is con-
tagious, while in other shapes it may exist
in flock without affecting any but those of
weak constitutions. The first thing to do
with the affected fowl is to clean out the
nostrils, and every breeder should have on
hand small syringe, which should be pnt
to use early. Roup, when malignant,
makes known its presence by peculiar,
disagreeable odor. The sick fowl looks
droopy, and slight pressure ON the nos
trils causes discharge, which is very often
sive in smell. Make a solution of cOpperas
water, and with the syringe inject some of
it into the nostrils, and also down the throat.
If the bird is no better in a few hours, try
severer remedy, which is the injection of
mixture of coal oil and carbolic acid. Add
ten drops of carbolic acid to tablespoonful
OF coal oil, and force a small quantity into
each nostril. This will cure when all other
remedies fail. Night and morning give
roup pills Tor powder) either in the food or
by forcing down the throat. Add some,
also, to the food OF those that are well.
How to make roup pills is what most per-
sons desire to know. The basis of all roup
pills or powers is asafoetida This is COM
bined with tonics and cathartics. Here is
the method, and by which large quantity
may be made at small cost. Take one
teaspoonful each of tincture OF iron, red
pepper, ginger, saffron, chlorate of potash,
salt and powdered rhubarb; mix them init
mately. After thoroughly mixing add
three tablespoonfuls OF hyposulphite of So
da, and mix together well. Incorporate
this with one ounce of asat9dita, working
it together until the whole is completely
mingled, occasionally sottening it, whenev-
er necessary, with castor Oil. This can be
made into pills, or when dry, into powder.
1t is of the same composition as many of the
roup pills which are sold at 30 cents a box.
There are many suggestions tor making
hens lay, but their virtues depend upon
stimulating the fowls and supplying them
with materials for producing eggs. Here
is recipe, which is good one Much bet
ter than the majority,) the cost of the in
gradients of which is but very little. Take
of bone meal, ground meat and parched
wheat (ground), two pounds each; linseed
meal, common salt, ground oyster shells
and charcoal, one pound each; saffron, red
pepper, ginger and hyposulphite of soda,
one-quarter pound each. Have all the in
gradients in fine condition, mix them to-
gether thoroughly, and you will have about
thirteen pounds of condition powder, at a
cost of not less than five cents per pound,
and which is not only egg food, but a pre-
Ventative and cure for many diseases. Give
a heaping tablespoonful once day to every
ten fowls, in the soft tood
AS to lice. This is not a disease. but is
not out of place here. To be rid of them
provide dust bath, dust the fowls with
Persian insect powder, clean out the poultry
houses and cOops, rup the roosts with coal
oil, and whitewash the buildings inside and
out with hot whltewash to which carbolc
acid has been added.
For scuryy legs, rub the legs two or three
times, (once week. with lard and sulphur,
to which few drops of carbolic acid have
been added, or with mixture of lard and