BLUE GUM FOR POULTRY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2475, 13 December 1886, Page 2

BLUE GUM FOR POULTRY.

-— '-* —— to-. A'correspondent write* to t&ajf !l and Country Journal that therW, "L remedy for the ills' of the poultry-yardT always at handin tho gum trees around it, He says:—For diarrhoea, dysentery, .and cholera in fowls,-.get a quantity of eucalyptus leaves (white or blue'gum ; j have used both.) Dry; the leaves «uff>' oienfcly to make them brittle, crush, »nd make into'pills with tho aid of a littl* bread or dough, v Put as much ot th« powder (i.e., crushed or powdered leares) as you oan lift with >a shilling into eaoh pill Give one to each fowl affected, audi if neoeaßarj', repeat the doso. next day. I have not had a single death amongst my fowls since I "used the foregoing reniedy. I lost se'vontoeu Wtwo day* with cholera, and the fojjtl saved out of twenty-ono I had could' nok stand when. I gave them the pills.. They are now fine healthy, birds. I have recommended tho remedy to several people, and in no case has' there been a single failure. Host ai'thesam* time a collection of Australian parroti from the same complaint, and it was by observing a flock of parrots on the whit*, gum treos that I found out the roKtedy. I have not lost a-single parrot sfncfc I gave an ailing parrot a, little .powdered leaf in a tube,, inserting one end into th» throat-of the bird, 'and blowing tho powder intdit.-/ Put a few leaves into the cage for them to eat. -Finally I may add that I have taken a'large pill, composed of the blue gum, for a very severe attack of dyaentory, which proved effectual and tho best remedy I have ever .tried. I havo beon a severo sufferer., I think tho eucalyptus. is ■nature's remedy;, for the foregoing complaints, aud is worthing,