. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 73 ing out the disease is to destroy all which are voiding yellow urates, care should be had to make the distinction between the urates and the bowel dejections, for the latter are frequently of a yellow color in Jiealth. The killing should not be by any metliod which allows the escape of blood, as this fluid is even more virulent than the excrement. Once killed, the bodies should be deeply buried. The drinking vessels and feeding troughs must be thoroughly disinfected, also the ground runs, buildings, et
. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 73 ing out the disease is to destroy all which are voiding yellow urates, care should be had to make the distinction between the urates and the bowel dejections, for the latter are frequently of a yellow color in Jiealth. The killing should not be by any metliod which allows the escape of blood, as this fluid is even more virulent than the excrement. Once killed, the bodies should be deeply buried. The drinking vessels and feeding troughs must be thoroughly disinfected, also the ground runs, buildings, etc. The liquid lice killers that are on the market are all good disinfectants, or you can use three pounds of sulphuric acid to forty gallons of water. Chiora-naptheolium is also a good disin- fectant. The liquids may be applied with a sprinkling can, or sprayer. Before dis- infecting the poultry houses, the manure must be first thoroughly cleaned up, dis- infected and removed. Sulphuric acid undiluted is a very strong and dangerous drug and will destroy clothing and cauter- ize the flesh wherever it touches it. Feathers become saturated with the con- tagion and to thorougiily disinfect every- thing, fowls and all, flour of sulphur can be put in a kettle or pan of burning coals and the fowls can remain in the house as long as the air can be breathed without danger oj suft'ocation. The best plan is to prevent cholera if possible by keeping the premises clean and to never buy or receive a fowl from a locality where chol- era has been raging, even a year after the disease has been stamped out. If you have any suspicion that a fowl has been where cholera has been, the fowl should be fumigated with the flour of sulphur before it is placed with the flock. Eggs from cholera districts should be thor- oughly cleaned of all particles of excre- ment adhering to them. It is a very im- portant thing to keep healthy fowls from infected grounds or from coming in con- tact with fowls that have
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