Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-01
ArswnRs TO QUESTIONS.


A few days ago The writer is not the
only one with the same problem and
this answer may help others.
eve had splendid luck with the baby
Reds until lately two of the pullets,. the
largest and smallest out of the chicks we
got from you, died within ten days of
each other since the rains. They stood
dropping around whining, with their
wings held out They were light as
feathers We are not feeding them
heavily, but they are on range.
Second. Please write me about the
use of asafetida and permanganate of
potash. Mine do not like it and will
almost famish before they will drink the
water. Should the permanSanate be put
only in enameled vessels? Couldn't
give the medicines together? What Is
each one for? | didn't understand wheth-
CIR 10 keep one sort in week and then
put in the other with no interval be-
tween Could we put q certain amount
of each in the Try mash, with just water
enough to moisten it?
I'VE are fcnd of our Reds, mother
| especially, and will feel well repaid If
we can keep what we have"
| They are infested with vermin. You
may scott at the idea. but more chickens,
hens, ROSTERS, turkeys even, de that
way than cholera kills. The warm.
damp weather breeds mites and lice in
enormous quantities. The lice suck the
blood until they get so weak and light
/ shat they die. Their bowels set loose
and cholera sounds better than the real
cause.
| Three people have told me this week
| of grown hens that had a weakness in
their backs; they could not stand on
/ their feet Fox my own satisfaction |
dipped one of that scrt and put it Where
| the' other chickens could not run over
| IT, That chicken could not use its legs
they laid along the floor, like a swimmer,
and it tried to get along by using it's
wings. | dipped it, put it in a box, fed
ii scratch feed and bran, plenty of wheat
/ bran and gave ii water, and in a week
the poor thing was using it's feet. So
f, you see what the dip aid.
/ / get zinc tub, measure the water in
a bucket and to every ninety-nine pints
of water ] put pint of stock dip. The
water will look milky and if it's too
| strong for your hands it's too strong
for the chickens skin.
i Catch the beak and put your thumb
1 and forefnger over the nostrils. your
/ DluGf HHAEI6 uiISl tue Hcdus ldhG t4iC
feet with the left hand put them in feet
first. that gives the water a chance UNI
4 der the feathers The head and all must
1 so under then let the head be out OF
/ the water and work your fingers in the
/ fea hers, so that all next to the skin
will get wet. This destroys the lice and
stops the blood sucking: but in ten days
4 go over them again for the eggs win
hatch and in ten days you can get
| all that's left
Take a hot day and do your Job
! about in the morning. Many of them
will lie with their heads on the ground
as much As five minutes. but don't get
| alarmed. ii you've been careful MT
rough, you will not lose any. Chickens
leqGlre gentle treatment. some people
seem to think it's a frolic to see dumb
creatures mistreated. God SURELY will
| take an account of cruelty.
Saturate your dead chickens out
plenty of chips and trash over them and
burn them, it is risky to take them of.
| ] knew a had scourge of cholera come
from a hen that was buried and tie
place was plowed deep enough for the
hens to get the germs.
Now, about the medicines: / put the
first dose of Epson salts in the mash.
l use a teaspoonful to four hens. That
| / buy ten pounds at a time, and even
now with prices so high you should not
| pay more Chan 20 cents for three pounds.
My plan is to put it in a moist, not
wet, mash every Tuesday, then If the
weather is good l put the same amount
of sulphur in the same sort of mash
Friday this goes on every week from
| June till frost. Still in cool rainy
weather | omit both and, then some pref
ty day | put salts in the drinking water.
OF course one must not make it so bit
ter the chickens refuse it. ! got out
os salts and when mine came last week
| / washed out the trough and let it stay
| emIty. for two hours, about l o'clock
/ put enough salts in a gallon of water
for it to taste, and right here / want
to tell you that you should be clean
with your fowls drinking water !
tasted that. They drank it as greedily
as they do buttermilk, and the days that
/ give them salts they do not get but
! termilk for that is a laxative too.
Permanganate of potash is strong. and
| It takes only few crystals to color
gallon of water 1t must not be deep
color. and in few hours it fades, con-
sequently it is a good idea to give 1t 10
| them as they come off the roost or
TO have the drinking vessel empty TIL
you can put the medicine in the water.
| Mix the water before you put 1T In tne
| through. The granite or enamelware Is
best because the permanganate will eat
/ hCles in metal.
However, do not fail because you have
nothing, of that sort. l used an iron
vessel two years, half a day is enough TO
keep either medicine in the water, if yen
! have the fowls thirsty.
! I've found use for hard ol<ra. | cut
it and put it on the back of the stove
with the little potatoes, the meal bran
and such water as l do not put in the
pig trough and let the pot boil till time
to feed the chickens The cooked veSe-
tables are mixed with the bran and salts
| and the chickens have a feast These
! changes of diet keep the appetite keen.
! And, now about the sick chickens m
! the hospital Soald and fumigate your
! hospital every time you finish with it,
! The farmer laughs at the one l have for
/ baby chicks. 1t is Dashboard shoe