Identifier: profitsinpoultry00fisk (find matches)
Title: Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Fiske, George B. (George Burnap), 1868-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York : O. Judd Co.
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y, do not imagine thatit is sick, and commence stuffing it with drugs; simplyremove it to a pen some distance from the flock, and letit alone a few days. If it proves to be very sick, chop offits head and burn it. For cholera, a strong solution ofhyposulphite of soda, given three times a day, in tea-spoonful doses, is probally the best remedy we have.For gapes, dip a feather in turpentine, and insert itinto the windpipe. One application will generally cure;two are sometimes necessary. Dip scaly legs in kero-sene two or three times. A little sulphur mixed withthe food once a week in winter prevents packing of thecrop and irregularities of the l^wols, caused by over-eating and the constant production of eggt^. Gravel and 188 PROFITS IN POULTRY. coarse ciiud are necessary for the digestion of food.Crushed bones, old plaster, lime, etc., are necessary forthe formation of egg-shells. Cayenne pepper in smallquantities, mixed with the food occasionally durins: thewinter, promotes egg-laying.
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K£D FILE OAHK COCKKBBL. CHAPTER XVIII. PARASITES UPON POULTRY. It is very common to speak of Hen-lice as if therewere but one kind of insect parasite upon our fowls.The fact is that there are at least five species of licewhich, with several mites, ticks, and kindred, creatures,bring up the number of poultry pests to a dozen ormore. From the day the chick leaves the egg, to thaton which it is prepared for market, it is subject to theattacks of one or more of theseparasites. That they interfeiewith the comfort, and conse-quently the thrift of the birds,is evident, and to be a successfulpoultry-raiser one should knowthorouglily the habits of thesepoultry enemies and the methodsof getting rid of them. Tlia^^some are wonderfully prolific isshown by feathers sent us by afriend in New Hampshire, whowrites: **They have somethingthe base, and about everyin the fluff is like(See Fig. 79.) The engrr.ving, of the natu-ral size, gives the appearance of the feathers. Amagnifier showed the **someth

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