Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-07-26
SOUTHERN STANDARD MEANWHILE TENNESSEE sATURDAYJULY

scratch between times. If the, are
protected from the dew aud rata,
and their bodies kept free from para
sites they will not be troubled with
gapes or any disease whatever, pro-
vided always that their quarters are
kept clean and wholesome, and the
parent stock is strong, healthy and
vigorous. Should a few cases of
gapes appear, as will sometimes
happen even with the best Of man
agement, kill the ones worst affected
and for a week following season the
evening meal for the remainder Oh
the flock with few drops of turpen-
tine.
Good milk, either sweet or sour, is
wholesome for fowls Of all ages, and
during all seasons of the year. When
given literally it will largely take
the place of meat, promote rapid
growth chicks, increase the egg~pro-
duction of laying hens, and give to
the flesh of fattening fowls a certain
tender juiciness and most tempting
white color. Judging from several
years. experience, l am of the firm
belief that flock Of chickens proper
ly cared for will never have cholera
as an epidemic. Asporadic case may
appear, but when removed from the
flock the others are not liable to be-
come affected, and if the sick fowl be
taken in time cure may frequently
be effected by an administering some
good anti-billious medicine, limiting
its diet to flour bread moistened with
sweet milk, and seasoned with black
pepper and mutton suet. With this
treatment / have seen a bad case
cured promptly. When dust baths
are kept within reach healthy fowls
are not apt to be troubled with YER
min during the day. Those lodge
upon the wood work near the roost-
ing places, and come out and prey
upon the fowls at night. They are
best destroyed by the application of a
thick whitewash made of fresh lime
and strongly tinctured with crude
carbolic acid, which seems to be es.
pecially obnoxious to all insect life.
To be effective, this mixture should
be applied to every crack and crevice,
and must be used as often as the in
sects reappear; before applying it,
however, the whole house should be
thoroughly swept and busted, and
fresh earth sprinkled on the floor.
Chickens are so fond of lime and
sand in the proportion commonly
used for plastering, that it is a good
idea to make up lot now and then
for their benefit. 1t may be mixed
in a box in their yard and left there
ready for them as they require it.
This is preferable,~{ think, to putting
sand in their food as some poultry
keeper advise. Pure lime is too caus-
tic; for soft-shelled eggs, make lime
water and put small quantity in
their soft food once a day, one gill to
a meal for 200 fowls being amply
sufficient. The moderate use of lime
water in their food or drink is also
good for their general health; il
cleanses and purities the system and
is corrective ofsuperabundant acidity,
the pricipal cause Of disordered bow
els.
While over feeding is always dan,
gerous, yet experience teaches that
it pays to feed poultry literally al
every season of the year; there is ais
ways some special purpose to be at
tanned. In the latter part of sum
mer and early fall there is the moul
ting season be well-tided over, ther
the fall and winter eggs, after which
come spring chicks, and so on. JUS
enough food to keep the flock alive
affords no material either for growth
or for eggs-it is the surplus tina
brings in the profit. Neglect zoe
not pay at any time, either in regarC
to cleanliness, sanitary arrangements