When it begins to thicken it is ready for use, and it should
be given — seeds and all — while very hot. Stewed linseed is
one of the finest remedies that can be given to fowls suffer-
ing from roup or colds. In administering it, however, to a
bird with bronchitis it is better to thin it down by adding
more water, or the bird may be choked in endeavouring to
swallow it.
DIARRHCEA AND DYSENTERY.
Diarrhoea arises from various causes. If fowls are kept
short of water they will drink copiously when they get the
opportunity, and this will often bring on the disease. Stale
food, irregular feeding, general debility, likewise produce it.
When a fowl is suffering from this complaint it will be
noticed that the feathers behind are generally soiled.
THE SIMPLE TREATMENT OF DISEASE. 131

Treatment. — Boiled rice sprinkled with powdered chalk
•will generally give relief in mild cases. I have found the
following remedy * to be invariably successful : Give a full
grown fowl one teaspoonful of powdered chalk and half a
teaspoonful of ground ginger, mixing the two together, and
making them into pills, with the addition of a little baked
flour. Some flour placed in the oven on a plate will be
quickly baked. If this fails to effect a speedy cure, from
five to seven drops of Collis Browne's Chlorodyne in a tea-
spoonful of water is an almost certain cure. Boiled rice
given three or four times a week is an excellent preventive
of diarrhoea for young chickens. Dysentery is but diar-
rhoea in an aggravated form.
LEG WEAKNESS.
