The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-02-26
FRESH AIR FOR HENS.

hIoh pei llueulIy DISCUSSES luS IL SSA
air problem as follows:
Did you ever consider the physio
logical reasons for the necessity Of
fresh air for poultry? 1t is doubt
full if five out of so persons really
| understand the matter.
In the first place, fowls never
sweat-they have no sweat glands. A
fowls natural temperature is much
higher than that of human beings
in fact it is above fever heat That
is the reason that draft does such
mischief. We might almost say II
signs a chickens death warrant
Perhaps that is putting it little too
strong, but it is not far from the
truth anyway. Somebody has said
that fowls body is regular little
engine: the heart beats like trip
hammer and pumps blood like a fire
engine. The chicken has nine extra
air sacs to help force oxygen to the
lungs, and therefore 1t needs many
times more oxygen, in comparison
with its size, than does the horse.
What does this mean? How does
it apply to the fresh air question
Simply this: Fowls need more air
than ordinary stock for two reasons;
they consume more oxygen. and all
moisture must he given off by the
breath Breath moisture is very
warm and condenses SO quickly that
one must ventilate to the limit to
carry it off instead of letting it form
a hOar frost on the inside walls Of
the poultry house. If ventilation is
lacking trouble is due any moment
among the flock Houses with open
front or houses with these fronts COW
cred with burlap or oiled muslin in
stead Of glass are successful because
they are thus provided with ventila-
ton; but houses with cracks and
knot-holes are death traps, because
Of resulting drafts. which are fatal.
If you open your bedroom windows
wide you wake up in the morning
feeling like a fighting cock. You
have had ventilation. Open your
windows an inch and morning will
find you feeling like 30 cents badly
spent. You have had a draft and
you sniffle and sneeze like an old
plug with the heaves. A draft is
thin stream of cold air. sneaking in
through warmer body of air without
mixing. Ventilation Is a body of air
that, however cold, comes in bunch
and has volume enough to regulate
its own temperature. Drafts are IA
tai to health in your flock, and health
means profit.-Maine Farmer.
AFFLICTED WITH WORMS.
For the past two years I have had
poor success with my chickens. 1t
matters not how much pains take
In feeding and caring for them, by
close observation l notice they are
very wormy. I have dressed num-
Der Of chickens and in one side of
the gizzard, after the lining is taken
out, find a sore with a number of
fine worms ranging from one-half to
two and one-half inches long, with
their heads fastened in that sore. Out
Of quite number l have killed there
was only 1 chick with a healthy giz-
zard notice also that they often
pass worms, three and four inches
long. l have also noticed some tape
worms. Ny hens often get crippled
in one leg, as if they had a broken
thigh; they hop around for some
weeks, and finally die, seemingly
with cholera. If any one has had
experience along this line and can
give me remedy l would be glad
to hear from them. I have fed poul-
try powder and used many other
remedies which have failed
Mrs. G.. W.
Answer:-Your birds are evidently
Infested with ''roundworms' and
tapeworms. The ''roundworms,"
while quite common, seldom do much
harm, unless present in large num-
bers. Where they are sufficiently
numerous to produce "stoppage' of
The bowels, and diarrhea. they de-
stroy large number Of birds in a
short time. Treatment-Every 9TH
or morning give a two-grain pill of
santonine, followed by half tea
spoonful Of castoroil Remove each
and every fowl affected to some iso- !
ated place, that the well birds will !;
not pick up the worms that pass from
he sick fowls. Since your fowls |
see INTO be affected with both round
worms" and "tapeworms' it will be
Necessary to treat your general flock |
or this trouble. by giving five drops
If "oil male-fern' in a teaspoonful OF |
'weet oil to each fowl Give this
Early in the morning, and about two
hours thereafter give them a mash |