Show cholera the great french chemist ch emitt pasteur has giyen to the public the re suit of his study of thi disease in fowl lie finds the caus to be a microscopic parfaite which finds ita food in the body of the fowl he proved the truth of hie theory by the following experiment of eighty healthy fowls which bad never bad the disease twenty died immediately after being inoculated with cholera poison in a virulent fonn the poison was then very much reduced in its strength and a second score of the fowls were inoculated with it they all suffered red from the in a slight degree but they all recovered and when afterwards inoculated with poison of lull strength only eight of the twenty died A third lot of twenty was ahn inoculated with weaker poiana and only five died when they were tested with stronger poison tho final score of fowls were inoculated four times at regular in ter vals and thereafter it was imps eible to give any one of them such a dose a pause jt death the condition of the experiment are said to havo been euch as to leave no room for doubt as to the obtained consequently it appears that chicken cL oleia must be added to the number of die cases preventable by inoculation the only benefit the ordinary farmer and poultry lajser can kt from this discovery ie an additional incentive to keep his poultry cuarte clean end crep froni lice o ahw by avoiding the dis eado obviate the necessity of inoch lation we havo never doubted that the so called chicken cholera was caused by lice but we have yet to find the parasite that will not yield to a thorough baab of sulphur and lard some time hen ago an of our her net and came off with fourteen young chicks being very wild we were unable to catch her and follow our usual plan ol 01 anointing with sulphur and crease and the chicks tweet oil on the head and breast few days after ot the little onee were missing and after thorough gl were found in an old dog where coop they had been in the habit of and pawing the night dead swarming with small red alicei tho eighth was still jut alive for the aka of the experiment but without any honea of t recovery lard and sulphur was usei on its entire body all through the day it lay apparently asleep but to and ward night bunted up the old ady infant brother and islene and today to day fi a well grown pullet lie mother with her brood and treated in the ame manner an hero have been no more losses |