The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-04-04
Cholera and Dlarrhoea. Many fowls

Cholera and Dlarrhoea. Many fowls
in South Carolina die of what is call
ed cholera when sorghum seed is ma
ture. Owing TO the amount of seed
on the ground, the fowls and chickens
are not fed other food to balance
their ration and intestinal troubles
result Poultry in confinement sre-
Iuently receive an oversupply of corn,
sorghum, or other grains. A heavy
percentage of starch and fat the
main constituents of the grains, in
their food will kill fowls and chicks.
They refuse to eat and stand with
runled plumage. The comb turns
black
Treatment. Give buttermilk or
sour skimmilk TO drink and no food
,or two days. II you do not have the
milk product add few drops of sui
curic acid to the drinking water. or
sufficient to give II tart taste. Feed
cooked meat once "A day. After the
second day keep the Clemson Egg
mash in a hopper and scatter grain
in litter as advised in the first para
graph under Feeding for Eggs"
Cholera is also caused by drinking
impure or stangnant water. Fill the
low places where the water lies. Use
the remedies mentioned above.
y tonic for poultry which has been
tested and may be recommended Is a
teaspoonful OF tincture of iron and
ten drops tincture of nux Somica to
the pint of drinking water. 1t tends
10 improve digestion and enrich the
blood
EGG Eating. Laying hens eat eggs
and egg shells because there is in
sufficient lime in the secretory glands
OF the uterus to form the shells OF
the developing eggs Hens consume
an egg 10 obtain the lime in the shell,
and not the albumcn or yolk The
foods poultry receive contains only
traces of lime, and il ground lime
stone, ground oyster shells. broken
plaster, or other calcareous mate ial
is not kept constantly before the
fowls, great and unnatural craving
for this substance is developed.
Treatment. DO not fill empty egg
shells with pepper and flour, or apply
other so-called remedies that do not
remove the cause OF this vice. Feed
egg-eating hens empty egg shells in
abundance, and the vice is Immediate
ly stopped. Do not powder the shells;
simply throw the broken parts on the
ground, and in half an hour the hens
are so satiated with lime that not an
other egg will be aten. Maintain a
supply of lime in future
- &c Al,
ity of fowls and chicks, making them
Improbable and susceptible to dis
ease, lice, mites, and fieas cause an
enormous loss every year.
Lice live and breed on poultry and
can be exterminated by greasing each
fowl with 33 per cent mercurial oint-
ment which can be bought at drug
store. The grease is placed on the
flesh below the vent covering
space not larger than a 25-cent piece
with a small amount Of the ointment.
This ointment poisons the lice and
1t is necessary to apply it only once
month.
Sitting hens can be creased before
the commencement OF the hatch and
when the chicks are dry. II the latter
peep and stand with eyes closed, ex-
anime the head minutely, and you
will probably find one or more large
head lice. Anoint the head and the
part under the beak with carbolized
vaseline. or one part of the 33 per
cent merculrial ointment and four
parts OF grease.
Mites remain on the roost, In the
orevices OF the poultry house during
the day and crawl on the fowls at
night to feed. They are red with
blood in the morning. Mites are kill.
ed by painting or spraying the
roosts. nests. and places where they
congegate with a mite paint con-
sisting of:
Mite Paint
Kerosene (coal oiD ....1 gallon
Crude carbolic acid or coal
TAR .................R R pint
. ara ..................2 2 tablespoons |
Melt the lard. ada 1t to the kero- |
enc, inc stir in the carbolic acid OF
cal tar
T'ess attach themselves to the side |