Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — Chicken Diseases. [ARTICLE]

Chicken Diseases.

CANKER. i Verv similar to robp but of the nature of diptberia and much more difficult to cure than roup. It seems also to be caused by taking cold, but is contagious. Ulcers usually form in the throat, mouth, and on the tongue, but sometimes on the betd, in the nostrils, and even the eye, destroying the sight. Remedy. — Provide a small swab, cleanse off twice a day the offensive cheesy matter, and wash but with chlorinated sods, or strong alum water, Justing the sores with burnt alum ot powdered borax. Give a pill daily made of 2 gr. of blue mass and 2 gra. of quiniue. Give tonic food and Douglas Mixture to drink. Remove the sick fowls, as it spreads by touch. Disinfect as for cholera or roup.