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Show Value of Sulphur and ' Charcoal for Fowls Sulphur Is a medicine, and not a food. True, small quantities of it may be found in all our grains, as well as in some other articles of feed. But sulphur as found in grain is combined com-bined with some other substance which counterbalances it. There are times when sulphur Is beneficial if judiciously administered, writes Michael K. Boyer in tiie Farm and Ranch. It must not be recklessly given, and never "during wet or damp weather, as its use at such times is apt to cause rheumatic troubles or a stiffening of the joints. Sulphur is a blood purifier, and often wards off disease and invigorates a run-down system. In such cases a teaspoonful, once a week, mixed with the mash, for about twenty hens, would be about right, hut even so small a quantity as this should be given only during a dry period. Charcoal consists almost entirely of carbon. It is prepared by heating wood so as to expel all the gaseous matter it contains. Ammonia Is a gaseous compound-alkaline like potas-sa. potas-sa. and is often termed spirits of hartshorn. When charcoal is properly treated there will not remain sufficient ammonia am-monia to be injurious to animal life. Any Impurities that charcoal might contain would be absorbed through atmospheric at-mospheric conditions. |