The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-14

piled the mixture 10 ears and neck. As
10 feeding. fed boiled potatoes and
corn meal. mixed together. or else
ted corn meal and boiled cabbage.
fed the cooked food morning and night
and fed wheat AZ noon. The chicks are
not big enough 10 eat corn. they are
only about two months old. and were
doing finely until they began 10 have
an attack Of the malady mentisned In
my last letter. published In the Farsi
ora Review under the date Of New. 49,
I did Aot notice the combs turning
YsllsW: they kept their natural color.
and the cid fowls aad little chickens
both are subjected 70 the nAlady. but
q has for soms tins bees a problem
a. 10 what II was have seeA old
hens that we're all right Al night and In
the morning they would be found dead.
In view Of the fact that everyone has
The same experience Il cannot be the
lice In all cases. N. II.
Kingsley. Iowa.
OF course. We cannot. without seeing
the fowls and watching them some
and perhaps performing an autopsy on
some Of them. tell for a certainty Just
What the matter Is. because the mere
fact Of a bird falling over dead does
not indicate tho cause. There are
many kinds Of diseases 10 which fowls
are fubiect. each having their pecu-
liar symptoms As a doctor could not.
without taking tho temperature OF bis
patient. locate some klnds Of disease.
so a person trying 10 locate the disease
Of fowls needs 10 Dc Ia a position 10
take heed Of tho most irlflng circum-
liances From what our correspondent
has said We are strongly OF the opinion
that Indigestion has been one OF tho
leading causes. perhaps the main
rause. lie had done well TO feed cook
cd food a. part Of bis ration. but
the food combination is very bad
However. this should not XII the birds.
unless Il made them more than I'M
usually fat We realize that u IL
thought a common and proper policy
10 feed corn and corn msai az every
opportunity. but We believe Il Is a
mistake The cooked 10 ! had better
contain a mrge part Of bran and oats
ground. Corn meal and corn contain.
IN large Quantities. fattenlng nutrients.
and wheat Is OF a somewhat similar
character. standing between oats and
corn. The ration fed has been very
poorly balanced. Indigestion usually
goes through two stages. the Grst be-
Ing seldom noticed. though Il kills a
good many fowls. The frst stage Il
constipation. and is caused b. a too
heatlpg and drying food. like corn and
corn meal. n watched. the fowls that
are afflicted this way will be seen 10
nope and often froop the tail feathers
They are eTidently In a state Of intense
suffering Many die In this stage and
are found dead In the morning with
aothlng apparently the matter II
they come through this stage an rlsht.
the Indigestion q Indicated By 100 great
loseness. and the feathers mussed b.
the thin tropplngs Il Il possible that
some poultry disease Is In the neigh.
horhood. perhaps cholera. but that
should b indicated by the loose green
dropplng1
We have found putting kerosene on
little chicks a very bad plan. having
killed a good many that way. even
vhcn the kerosene was mixed with
grease. We have long since discarded
the kerosene and ind the greasy does
n sans vorS. Even grease will Bills.
ter bodies and Nil the chicks when
applied too freely.