The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-04-25

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.
tbs nests with marked success and that
hey have kept out not only mites and
other lice but the parasites that make
sca1y leg It is claimed that they can
be kept in the nests with the chicks
and that when the latter come. on they
and their mother will be freq from
yermin. We would like to know If
any of readers have tried the
camphor balls and with what success
Liver trouble in fowls Recently a
pouItryman talked in public of liver
trouble in fowls and expressed the
opinion that it 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 if not frequently due to
this trouble The writer had this
trouble in his flock at one time. and
ascertained the facts in the case by an
autopsy on the fowls. which autopsy
showed the Hvers enormously dilated
with the blood that had been drawn
from the heart and all other parts OF
the body. 1t 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 a
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 it as
| a disease that is very common. This
| illustrates the first sentence in this
| note that the knowledge gained by the
| few finds its way very slowly into the
minds of the great multitude 1t is
now Il good many years since the
United States government began an
investigation along this line Indi-
gestiOn prevails everywhere among
fowls, because everywhere are poultry
raisers that feed too much grain food
in proportion to other kinds of food
At the time of beginning the investi
cations doubted that cholera
existed in every direction The col
lectors of specimens of sick birds had
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,
I and they were taken to the station
! where the experiments were to be
made and put under observation. She
microscope was brought into requisi-
ton to find the germ evidences of
cholera, but none were found. The re-
; suit was that it was demonstrated that
: all of the fowls secured, gathered from
different farms. were affected only by
indigestion due to wrong methods OF
feeding. A second effort was made to
get birds really sick with cholera, and
few were secured after long
search. Yet during the years that have
3 | interviewed the people have gone on
/ calling simple indigestion cholera and
dectoring 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
5 medicine a 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
5 cholera that has been reported to him
S | and that he has investigated, indIges-
: | ton only has been found. The writer
= of this article has had the same ex-
e | perience, and has found so-ca1led chol-
i | era cases to be always indigestion due
. | to wrong feeding.