Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-12
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE Q THOMAS
Poultry Diseases


Everybody is supposed to be full
of the Christmas spirit right now,
but the letters that are coming TO
me asking advice about roup, shows
| that the poultry question looms
right along with the high cost OF
| living. The dampness this fall has
played havoc with poultry and 1t be-
| Eooves all owners of even SCRUB
stock to keep the roosting places dry
! and warm and to see that they go
! to roost with full crops. This is
! the time of year to get good prices
for eggs and it's penny wise ana
and pound foolish" to stint them
| at their evening meal. Let them
hustU all day, they are fortunate
| fowls if there is rye patch Or green
| spot for them now. 1 do not feed
| corn in sunGner, but when 1t is cold
and damp the heat that it generates
beats anything else.
A good, dry mash, all they want,
will often start them to laying.
Would you expect fat hogs on half
rations? Remember that the. hen
body is an egg factory, and you arc
not smart if you expect her to give
you an egg day with nothing TO
use for that purpose.
The last crushed oyster shell 1
bought cost eighty cents for l0O
pounds. Put a box full in your hen
house and see how fast 1t goes. You
have had chickens and perhaps tur-
KEYS on that place for years, they
have almost lost heart over the
scarcity of real egg-making material.
Lime your land, scatter rye ana
pillow it under even if they must
continue there, they will scratch ana
get healthy, and you will not nave
any cape worms next year. A bar
rel of lime will cost just a little
more than two dozen eggs and II 1t
| is where it can be busted under
the roosts in their busting places
and nests there will not be as much
disease or insects.
The poultry business, even the
business of home market, means
lot of work, much foresight and
prompt attention to details At this
season the water vessels should be
scalded at least once a week, and
enough permanganate of potash put
in the water to make it Il deep wine
color. If the nose is running use
little mentholated salve or cam
phor saIve and rub their threats with
some and give a purgative.
I am going to add some remedies
that it will be we'll for all poultry
raisers to put in a little book, and
to be on the safe side, keep these
remedies in the house:
Bronchitis-Place in a warm, dry
room, feed on bread and milk, and
twice day add two grains of black
antimony to the TODD.
Rheumatism-Keep in a warm, dry
place. give forty grains of EPSON
salts in two teaspoonfuls of water.
Battle the legs, or where they join
the backbone. in turpentine, but not
enough to blister. and use plenty
Of green feed.
Rattling in the Throat--Ask your
druggist for the homeopathic tab
lets of arsenite of antimony, one
thousandths part OF a grain. You
know, homeopathic doses are small;
give one of those little tablets four
times a day for two weeks or until
the rafting stops. This is sure If
taken in time. Do not use this sort
of cock nor the eggs laid by such
hen. Chickens Matched from in
fected eggs arc the sort that make
your mortality so great.
1 have three lots Of young chick
ems Matched since September Is, and
not one had died from any disease
Had one crazy hen to kill some Of
hers and a hawk got two before