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Show weather it should be put into the drinking water two or three times a week, as this will often prevent the spread of catarrh. Chicks Just hatched should receive permanganated water for the entire first week, as the infection infec-tion from white diarrhea occurs nearly always in this critical period of the birds' existence. Epsom salts should be used when fowls are constipated or have diarrhea. In both cases it cleans out the system. sys-tem. The dose varies from one-quarter of a teaspoonful for a very young chick to a full teaspoonful for mature birds. Dissolve ( the salts in warm water and moisten mash with this solution. so-lution. Do not feed the sick birds in the morning but in the middle of the afternoon give them the mash. DISEASES OF POULTRY Little Has Been Done to Find Cures for Many Ailments. Every Poultryman Should Have on Hand Plentiful Supply of Permanganate Per-manganate of Potash Crystals Crys-tals and Epsom Salts. (By D. B. GREENBERG, Instructor In Poultry Husbandry, New York State School of Agriculture.) The old adage "an ounce of prevention preven-tion is worth a pound of cure," is nowhere more applicable than in the case of diseases of domestic birds. So little has been done thus far by scientists to find cures for the numerous numer-ous ailments of fowls, that not very many of them can be cured. Our attention must then be directed to the prevention of diseases, and in most cases they can be avoided, if the poultry man Is only willing to take the proper sanitary precautions. There are two medicines, which every poultry poul-try man should always have on hand, namely, permanganate of potash crystals crys-tals and Epsom salts. The former is now very expensive, due to the unsettled un-settled condition of the chemical market, mar-ket, but so little of it is really needed that a poultry man should not go without with-out it. The crystals can be bought at any drug store. Do not buy it in solutions, as you are then paying for water. Two tablespoonfuls of permanganate permanga-nate of potash should be added to a quart of warm water. Most of it will dissolve, but a few crystals will remain re-main at the bottom of the bottle. Use this solution to color the drinking water wa-ter of your birds, young and o;d, being careful to shake solution well each time before using. The drinking water wa-ter should show a claret-red color against your hand thmst into the water. wa-ter. It is necessary to put your hand in the water because presence of li'ht or shadow will make the water uppi-ar to be a different shade than it really is. Too much of this permanganated water cannot he given to poultry. Sick birds should receive no other water. wa-ter. The permanganate acts as a disinfectant dis-infectant for the water and the digestive diges-tive organs of the fowls. It is also good for healthy birds. In damp |