Lewiston inter-state news. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1905-1906, 1905-11-07
CHOLERA IN FOWLS.
| Treatment IL Mainly Pfe~entive-loo.
late Infected Birds.


late Infected Birds.
Medicinal treatment for true cholera
ID of little value. The disease Is 50
rapidly fatal that 1t Is rarely dlscov-
cred until too late to attempt treat
ment, writes p. T. Woods. NJ. D., in
Reliable Poultry Journal. No attempt
to treat birds sick with the cholera
should be attempted unless they arr
very valuable. For the safety of thu
rest of the flock they should be stran-
gled and cremated.
The treatment Is mainly preventive.
Observe cleanliness and the usual
common sense rules Of poultry keep
ing Quarantine all new birds brought
home from shows. Do not use eggs
for Matching unless you know they are
from healthy stock. In hot weather.
when diarrhea Is prevalent In the
peighborhood, do not feed eggs to
fowls without flrst thoroughly cooking
them.
As soon as the disease Ii discovered
establish a pesthouse remote from the
other poultry buildings. 4 place that
can be easily and thoroughly dlsin-
fected. Isolate all suspected cases In
the pesthouse a. soon as you can nnd
them. Give these birds a few drops
of creolin In their drinking water, Just
enough to turn 1t family milky, or
give them drinking water In which has
been dissolved one one-tentk Of q grain
tablet Of corrosive sublimate to the
quart Of water. A good homo remedy
in any severe diarrhea and often In
mild cases Of cholera Is to drop tweaty
to thirty drops Of spirits Of camphor
on sugar and dissolve the whole In .
pint Of water. Place this before the
sick birds and allow no other drink.
All birds which ahew marked symp.
toms Of the disease had better be killed
and cremated at once. This Is safest
and best. XIII them by strangling OF
by a sharp blow with a blunt club,
breaking the neck. Do not draw blood,
as the blood Is infectious and you do
not want to spill It. II they bleed.
scrape up all blood and burn with the
body and disinfect the place where II
fell. Rake up and burn all litter used
in houses or runs occupied by infected
birds. Spray the runs and all parts
Of the buildings with a strong solution
Of creolln or per cent solution Of
sulphuric acid in water.
Some Of the quarantined birds may
recover without other medicine than
that advised for the drinking water. al
before mentioned. The proportion Of
creolin Is about one teaspoonful to an
ordinary wooden bucketful Of drinking
water. I prefer the use Of corrosive
sublimate unless q large number of
birds are to be treated. This manner
Of general treatment Is the cheapest and
the easiest way of handling the dis
cased birds. Individual cases may be
treated In the case Of valuable birds.
These give one one-t housandth Of a
and hardly truly Objectionable. Pos.
sessed of an unusual share Of beauty,
they are likewise general utility fowl
They are full, round and plump and
reach maturity quickly. The standard
weights are: Cock. eight and a halt
pounds: the hen six and half pounos
and the pullet i've and a half pounds.
Larger birds are often exhibited. and
the increase in weight seems not to
have interfered with a high score. The
utility bird may be bred to weight.
but the exhibition bird ought not to
run above the standard weights.