Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1871 — Prevention of Disease in Poultry. [ARTICLE]

Prevention of Disease in Poultry.

Hens are no more liable to disease than cattle, whan one is treated as well as the other. Yet ailments are more common among poultry .than among larger stock, taking farms, city suburbs and villages together. The fact is, the smaller the animal the greater its chances Of being kept under unnatural aud injurious conditions. If a horse is in a filthy stall we cannot help noticing it, or if a cow is kept through a hot night in a tight stable we condemn the carelessness that left the door shut. But f >wls are kept in tainted roosts to the disgrace of their owners, whose thoughts are occupied with other matters, and in hot weather the poor birds clothed with a dress of the warmest materials. are left to swelter and pant in unventilated apartments, out of eight and out of mind. Then, as regards feeding, no one would give a horse a half-bushel df oats at once, and then starve him for a flay or two at a time, but some people feed their fowls when, as they say, they “ take a notion," or “ happen to think on’t.” .The liabilities of abuse beset poultry in various ways and at all ages and seasons, on account of their being so small, and easily overlooked. For instance, partly grown chickens are most generally huddled at night in a little low coop where the air becomes positively poisonous before momirig. Cotis or calves, hewever, are not liable to be crowded together in large numbers inone apartment. Chickens, when young and feeble, are sometimes kept where they become swamped in the grass loaded with dew,which is to them what a torrent would be to larger animals, but if the latter are kept out in a oold rain, we notice the shiftlessness of the owner. We believe that if feathered stock is properly cared for, we shall have less need of printing remedies for sick fowls, and we heartily wish they may be spared the infliction of such senseless prescriptions of violent nostrums as may frequently be found in books and papers. We have never knowaan instance where the selection of a g«x)d, healthy vigorous stock of fowls, has been followed by a pains taking and intelligent management, without the result proving that poultry are no more subject to disease necessarily, than any other domestic animal. Surely satisfaction and profits both indicate that it is better to prevent rather than jte obliged to undertake the cure of diseases in poultry.—iJural Home. A Jjub ’que man, who is passionately fond of the weed, put a lighted pipe in his coat pocket in the house, and went off to church with his family. When he retumei home there was no home to cheer him —nothing but a heap of ruins, and that was not cheering by any means. The lighted pipe set fire to the coat, the devouring element communicated with the building which, with its contents, was entirely consumed. The man has quit smoking. ____________ For Sewing Machine thread use Geo. A. Clark's O. N. T. It is six-cord in all numbers, is never enameled, and is stronger and better in all respects than all others. A gentleman from Bethel Hill, Me., says that Messrs. Allen Bros., proprietors of Phillip Allen’s Print Works, R. 1., were down to Brvant’s Pond recently, fronting, when one of them whs-attacked with sciatic rheumatism so suddenly that he had to be carried from the pond to his hotel. A bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment was resorted to, and he was ont next dav.