190 Bureau of Faemers' Institutes. 



Answers. — (a) Roup is a word used to signify (catarrh) an 

 inflammation in the upper air passages, sore throat, change of 

 voice, and a mucous nasal discharge, as these symptoms appear 

 in simple catarrh, infectious catarrh, diphtheria, "going light," 

 bacterial enteritis and psorospermic enteritis, it will he seen that 

 the word " roup " should not he used as the name of a disease, as it 

 is confusing. (h) All hut the first one named are infectious. 

 (c) To prevent infectious catarrh and diphtheria, fowl should not 

 be brought home from the show, nor be taken from unknown 

 flocks and placed with the home flock for at least two weeks, and 

 it is not even safe to allow the same person to care for them that 

 has charge of the home fowl; people or animals should not he 

 allowed to come from infected flocks and go directly to the healthy 

 flock. I have had good success in preventing psorospermic enter- 

 itis, bacteria enteritis and going light by feeding hyposulphite of 

 soda, sulphate of iron and oxide of iron once a week. In damp 

 weather these diseases are more virulent. Chicks or fowl should 

 never have wet feet nor he kept in damp places, {d) In ^ leaking 

 of the cure for these diseases it may he well to say that one dose 

 for an adult, fowl will make one dose for 20 little chicks one 

 week old. Simple catarrh, or simple cold, usually affects hut 

 one or two fowl at a time and they soon recover. With infec- 

 tious catarrh, a good share of the flock have it at the same time, and 

 the eves swell. In turkevs the nasal sinuses also swell or enlarge. 

 R. Treatment : Put two ounces of permangante of potash (or boric 

 acid, hut not as good), in four quarts of water, grasp the fowl in 

 one hand and the neck in the other and submerge the head three 

 or four times until the bird is about strangled each time, and do 

 this once a day for a week; take one-half ounce of permanganate 

 of potash and put it in four quarts of water and give them this to 

 drink for a week. Diphtheria is a disease where cankers are found 

 in the mouth, and the treatment is the same as for infectious 

 catarrh. Psorospermic enteritis is a disease that causes great loss 

 in voung chicks. There is usually diarrhoea, with whitish excre- 

 ment, followed by constipation ;' with adult fowl, diarrhoea is 

 abundant and the excrement may he of a brick-red color, or even 

 streaked with blood. Treatment the same as for " going light," with 

 a little charcoal and chalk. Bacterial enteritis, a disease causing 

 great loss in chicks, turkeys and ducks, much like "going light," 

 but with no appetite and diarrhoea. Treatment the same as for 

 pson spermic enteritis. 



