BLUE GUM FOR POULTRY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1410, 18 November 1886, Page 2

BLUE GUM FOR POULTRY.

A correspondent writes to the Toxon and Country Journal that there is a remedy fir the ills of the poultry-yards always at hand in the gum trees around It. He says “ For diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera In fowls, get a quantity of eucalyptus leaves (white or blue gum ; I have used both) Dry the leaves inffi» ciectly to make them brittle, crash, and make into pills with the aid of a little bread or dough. Put as much of the powder (he., crushed or powdered leaves) as yon can lift with a shilling into' each pill. Give one to each fowl effected, and if necessary, repeat the doae next day. I have not bad a single dea h amongst my fowls since I used the foregoing renjedy, 1 lost seventeen in two days with cholera and the font I savad out of twenty-one had coold not stand when I gave them the V; pills The are now fine healthy birds, 1 have rt cimmended the remedy : to several people, and fn no case baa there been a single failure. J lost at thp same time a collection of Australian parrots from the same complaint, and it was by observing » flick of prrrota on the whiter gom trees that I found oat the remedy. I have not lost a sicgle parrot sinde. I gave an ailing parrot a little powdered leaf in a tube, inserting one end into the throat of the bird, and blowing the powder into it Pat a few Laves into, the cage for them to eat. Finally I may add (hat 1 h>’iVe taken a lirga pill, o m xia-d of tie blue gum, for a very severe st ack of y. which proved effec nat »u<t the beat remedy I have ever tried. I- have been a severe snfftrer. I thins the Eucalyptus is nature's remedy for the forgoing com plaints, and is worth trying.