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Show TREATING WORMS IN FOWLS Mix in Feed One Teaspoonful of Permanganate Per-manganate Root Bark for Every Fifty Head of Birds. Intestinal worms are prevalent in almost all farm flocks. To be -on-vinced of whether or not your bird has worms, it is a good plan to give the flock, or at least a few individuals, individ-uals, a dose of physic. One of the best methods of treating worms in fowls is to mix in the feed a teaspoonful teaspoon-ful of powdered permanganate root bark for every 50 head of birds. In treating a few birds at a time it is well to follow this medicine with a purgative dose of castor oil, such as two or three teaspoonfuls. Oil of turpentine is an excellent remedy for all worms which inhabit the digestive tract. It may be given In the dose of one to three teaspoonfuls, teaspoon-fuls, and is best administered by forcing forc-ing it through a small, flexible catheter cathe-ter that has been oiled and passed through the mouth and esophagus to the crop |