Hutchinson gazette., 1901-04-25
Poultry Brisfa.

Poultry Briefs
Camphorated balls are recommend
ed for keeping lice from the nests OF
laying and sitting hens, A poultry
raiser says that he has used them In
tho nests with marked success and that
.hey have kept out not only mites and
other lice but the parasites that make
scaly leg II Is claimed that they can
be kept In the nests with the chicks
and that when the latter come of they
and their mother will be free from
vermin. We would like to know II
any Of our readers have tried the
camphor balls and with what success,
Liver trouble In fowls, Recently a
poultryman talked In public OF liver
trouble In fowls and expressed the
opinion that II is to be met with al
most entirely in turkeys. We are GER
tain that IL exists to considerable
extent among chickens, but Is often
not recognized as such When appar-
emily healthy fowls drop over dead It
is sometimes II not frequently due to
this trouble. The writer had this
trouble In his dock at one time, ana
ascertained the facts In the case by an
autopsy ON the fowls. which autopsy
showed the llyers enormously dllated
with tho blood that had been drawn
from the heart and all other parts OF
the body II Is probably a germ dis
ease,
Very slowly the knowledge that is
gained by the few is disseminated
among the many, Last week at Osh-
kosh, Wisconsin, the writer heard u
man talking on the question Of fowl
cholera. He stated, and that truth
fully, that chicken cholera Is a dis
ease that Is not widely prevalent
among the fowls of poultry raisers;
but for all Of this people regard II as
n disease that is very common, This
illustrates the first sentence In this
note that the knowledge gained by the
few finds ts way very slowly into the
minds OF the great multitude, II Is
now good many years since the
United States government began an
investigation along this line, lndl'
gestion prevails everywhere among
fowls, because everywhere are poultry
ralsers that feed too much grain food
In proportion to other kinds OF food,
At the time OF beginning the investi-
cations no one doubted that cholera
existed in every direction The col
lectors OF specimens Of sick birds had
no trouble in finding farms on which
the disease was reported to exist, The
birds secured gave the evidences popu-
larly supposed to belong to cholera,
and they were taken to the station
where the experiments were to be
made and put under observation, The
microscope was brought"into requisl-
tIon to find the germ evidences OF
cholera, but none were found. The re-
suit was that II was demonstrated that
all OF the fowls secured, gathered from
different farms we're affected only by
indigestion due to wrong methods Of
feeding, A second effort was made tC
get birds really sick with cholera, ant
few were secured after a lone
search. Yet during the years that have
interviewed the people have gone on
calling simple indigestion cholera and
doctoring for It, The sellers Of worth.
less medicines have come in with so
called cholera cures and have done
considerable business with the alleged
cures, as they prescribed with the
medicine n system Of feeding that, by
itself was sufficient to overcome the
effects of wrong feeding, Mr., Mat
teson says that in every case OF fowl
cholera that has been reported to him
and that he has investigated, lndlges'
tlon only has been found, The writer
of this article has had the same ex-
perience, and has found so-called chol-
era cases to be always indigestion due
to wrong feeding,