The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-31
Fowls Affected With Inhuenza-Pt
Silly ROup.

SAhAS
Editor Agricultural Department: Can
any of your readers tell me what this dis
ease is that is so prevalent in this neigh
borhood among chickens. l call it chick
en- pox and am treating it with an ONT
ment made of lard, VaSeline, sweet Oil sui
phur and a couple of drops of carboic
acid. This is applied to the afflicted parts
A sore or scab (some call it a wart), forms
over one or both eyes and the chicken be-
comes blind and starves to death. If the
eyes or even one eye can be kept open the
chick will recover, as it seems to be per-
fectly wei except for this sore. Chicks
three. four, five, six or eight weeks old
have it, Chicks were Matched in an incu-
bator, put in a brooder house and kept off
all wet grass and never got wet. Can
any of your readers tell me the cause of
this disease, the best cure for it, and, if
possible, how to prevent it? 1t is said to
he contagious, but l do not find it to be so
as 1 put well chickens of different ages
among the sick ones and they have never
taken the disease Poultry
Your fowls are suffering from influenza,
Which assumes many forms, some more
serious than others, such as roup or diph-
iberia. From your letter it would appear
that the disease had not yet assumed its
most serious and malignant form. Get
you small can with spring bottom, such
as is used for injecting oil into machinery,
FIJI this can with camphorated oil and
take each affected fow. and inject the oil
freely into the nostrils and mop the head
and neck.
There are a score of reported remedies,
but this is about the best
saturated solution of alum mixed with
equal part of strong vinegar, and dipping
the head and neck of the fowl freely into
~ IS good. Keep the sick fowls to them
selves and spread lime all about them. If
the mouse is such as to allow, fumigate
thoroughly with pine tar, turpentine
and sulphur, burning the same so as to
create dense fumes.
Keep surroundings pure as possible by
free use of ashes, lime and even landplaster
10 cover droppings. Provide a quart of
water in which is mixed thirty or forty
drops Of aconite for twenty-five fowls. 1t
Is rather confusing to multiply remedies,
put there are other good things. Follow
the above, if possible, and we trust YOU
VIII lind good results. Write US the out
come
have small piece of land that 1 am
trying to so improve this year that it will
grow Irish potatoes profitably next year.
sowed oats on the land in November
and recently cut the crop which was a
very fine yield as much as twelve bushels
OF grain, estimated as closely as possible.
on part of this land have planted COW
peas mixed, but a fair proportion of I'm
Known The rest of the land l will plant
IN sofa beans in two foot rows. Granting
that l get a good stand of both l would
Ike TO ask whether it would be better TO
turn the vines under about the time they
bloom or let the crop grow on until the
vines mature. With good seasons is it not
likely that some seeds will mature before
frost, which might be saved and would
pay the expense of the crop? C.
Yes, push the crop by good cultivation
ana save all the peas or beans that ma
ture by frost. Then let the vines die on
the land, turning them under when you
begin preparation for planting your Irish
potatoes in Dacennh her or January