Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-18

WdNCTty E1dAAf NTh- VIII gOu
please tell me what is the matter
with my chickens, spring hatched9
Their eyes begin running water
and seemed to become filled with
bubbles and then swell up to an
enormous size and close entirely.
They eat hearty as long as they
can see. This resembles sore
head some but their heads do not
become as sore. Often one eye
will become effected and the other
not MY chickens have had free
access to range and oat- field and
have been fed on mixed poultry
feed. have been giving a little
sulphur and salts IN their feed for
sometime, but this does not seem
to keep them from taking this dis
ease. / will thank you very kind
ly to advise me what the disease
is and remedy for same.
Yours truly,
J. c. SMITH.
ANSWER "tr-t
Your chickens have evidently
caught cold and 1t has gone into
roupe which IS contagious and
hard to cure. You should use
Conkey's Roupe Cure. Pomanginate
of Potash or Germozone in their
should be caught and battle their
heads in equal parts OF camphor,
sweet oil and turpentine, with. a
little earbolic acid mixed In same.
You should feed on plnety good
sound grain food anu 1t should be
fed in a trough. They should also
have one soft feed each day with
Bankers Condition powders in 1T.
This trouble is usually brought
about by chickens sleeping in damp
quarters or sleeping in crowded
quarters or where a draft can blow
on them. You should change their
sleeping quarters and give them
plenty fresh air. but see that no
draught blows on them and see
that their sleeping quarters are
dry It is not good idea to feed
young chickens under six weeks or
two months old any sulphur or
salts, especially during spring
months or during damp weather as
IL has a tendency to keep them
with a cold, -
Aiken, s. c.: am just start
ing to raise chickens and wish to
grow the feeds given them and
would greatly appreciate q little
information from you. What grains
are contained in the best chick
feeds7 Also what proportion2
Cyphers seems to put up a good
chick feed, but such prices are pro-
hibition and should like TO know
how to mix my own feeds. Thank
ing you for any information, am,
Yours very truly,
H. A. G.
Inc best, also cheapest and most
profitable feeds you can grow for
chickens are oats, wheat sorghum
cane seed and corn. These make
a balance ration and will produce
more in the south than anything
you can grow per acre. Most of
the chicken feeds that are now on
the market are composed of crack
ed corn, wheat, caffet corn and
oats. These form the basis Of the
mixture. vs..
One of the greatest draw backs
in the raising of chickens is the
high price of feed, and I suppose
this will continue as long as food
products for fowls. animals and
people remain at the price they are
now selling at
Alfalfa, both green and cured is
practically the basis Of my feed.
! feed a large per cent Of this
every day and can grow II cheaper
than anything I know of in the
way of feeo. Until you can raise a
crop Of feed, about the best and
cheapest thing you can DO will be
TO continue TO buy either Como
and .Cyphers' Scratch feed and
Aunt Patsey already prepared dry
mash feed as they are the best and
cheapest in the end Of anything I
know Of so long as you have to
buy IT.