This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...under the skin ten fowls, each separately, with a drop of infectious blood, and ten others with a drop of the liquid. Strange to say, the latter ten hens will die as quickly, and with the same symptoms as the former ten. The blood of all will be found to contain the same minute infectious organisms. From this, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...under the skin ten fowls, each separately, with a drop of infectious blood, and ten others with a drop of the liquid. Strange to say, the latter ten hens will die as quickly, and with the same symptoms as the former ten. The blood of all will be found to contain the same minute infectious organisms. From this, the reader will get a good idea of what chicken cholera is, and how it is communicated. It will be seen that fowls cannot go on infected ground, and that a fowl which has the disease cannot be cremated too soon for the good of the flock. It should not be buried, but burned, with all its feathers and blood and excrements; and its house, roosting-place and grounds thoroughly disinfected. The best disinfectant is fire, but as that is not practicable, the next best is a solution of sulphuric acid. It is discovered that this kills the germs effectually. Sulphuric acid is cheap, but it must be carefully handled until it is diluted. Make a solution in the proportion of three pounds of sulphuric acid to forty gallons of water, well mixed, and thoroughly wet the grounds and roosts and everything connected with the disease. It can be applied pretty well with a hand-sprinkling pot. It will not do to let a germ go unwet, --they will be as virulent five years hence as now. Here is an explanation how it is that fowls have cholera on the same grounds year after year; whereas yards not far distant, that have not had it, do not have it; but a fowl that has once walked in an infected yard, I would not allow in a healthy yard of fowls. A minute particle of excrement could easily be carried on the foot. If we can vaccinate for cholera in its worst form, we may ask, Can we not for the milder form, as we do for the small-pox in a mild form? Professor Pasteur has produced vi..
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