The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-01-24
WORMS IN FOWLS.
How to Treat Fowls to Keep Them Free
from Parasitic Disease.

How to Treat Fowls to Keep Them Free
from Parasitic Disease.
There may be few who know of or
suspect the presence of worms in fowls,
or believe that such an ailment affects
the poultry-yard. Yet, it is a well-es-
tablished fact that such an ailment does
exist-that there has been found by
actual examination no less than sixteen
different kinds of worms in fowls, and
that the presence of these parasites
which infest the intestincs of the fowl
is a prime and prolific source OF
disease.
The manner of their introduction into,
or the cause of their creation in, fowls is
not well known or determined, but
there is every reason to believe, how
ever that their presence is due either to
the fowls eating food that is more or
less in a state of decomposition, or food
that is ''mitey"-that is, infested with
maggots, weevils, etc, or to their be-
ing kept in close, crowded and unclean
Enclosures, or from both being fed un-
wholesome food and confined in filthy
quarters.
Their existence in the organs of fowls,
besides being a source of future disease
that finally results in death, so deranges
and destroys the parts which they in
fest that the action of the alimentary
organs become weakened, the vitality
lowered and the stamina destroyed, and
the fowl rendered an easy and helpless
prey to whatever epidemics there may
arise, and to any of the ills and dis
orders that commonly affect the poul-
try-yard.
The presence of worms in fowls is
not readily exhibited or easily discov-
cradle. The principal and perhaps the
only symptom manifested and notice
able is that they nope and hang about
with dropping of the head and slow,
sluggish movements. A good and gen.
orally sure way, however, to ascertain
their existence in the fowl is to examine
the droppings, for if present in the in
testines they will nearly always be ex-
hibited in the residuum.
The best known remedy for this af-
lection, and one which has hitherto
never failed, is to give the fswl turpen-
tine in capsule form, one or two of
these followed in twelve hours by a
dose of castor oil. This will COM
| pletely expel these troublesome and
dangerous parasites from the system
and effects the removal of an i'll that
would, if let alone, surely end in the
loss of the fowl.
The result of administering this dose
is magical. The fowl Immediately be-
gins to revive and soon regains its nor
NAL health, vigor and activity. 1t is a
dose that may occasionally be given
to fowls with results most beneficial,
satisfactory and profitable, whether the
presence of worms is manifested or not.
Fowls so treated will always be free
from the parasitic disease, and a recur-
renee of it in those fowls that have been
freed from it, or its attacks upon those
fowls that have never had it, may be
prevented by thoroughly cooking soft
foods, such as animal and watery veg.
etables, by thoroughly cooking grain OF
meal that may be weevily, by feeding
only clean grain, by keeping theil
houses and Enclosures thoroughly clean
and by occasionally sprinkling theil
run freely with lime. San francisco
Chronicle.