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Question. Tell us something about roup. That is some- 

 thing we have to deal with. 



Dr. Woods, Do you have much of it? It comes largely 

 from breeding roupy stock. I have not seen one genuine case 

 of roup for some time. Roup is a germ disease. Roup is a 

 common name given to almost any kind of a cold that a fowl 

 might have, but when you get right down to roup you get a 

 putrid condition, which is very much akin to diphtheria. 

 Whenever you get roup you get that foul smell that accom- 

 panies roup. Now for roup in its first stages, in a mild form, 

 there is nothing any better than to use aconite and bryonia, 

 given in tablets containing one one-hundredth of a grain of 

 each ingredient. That can be used twelve tablets in a pint of 

 drinking water, or it can be given one tablet to each infected 

 bird. If you take it in time, that remedy will usually prove 

 effective. 



I do not see anything wrong with most of the roup rem- 

 edies. They are all more or less effective, bvit you can do it 

 cheaper by going down to your drug store and buying an 

 ounce of what is called Pearson's Creolin, or even Buffalo 

 roup preparation, or Boston Sanitary Fluid, which are all the 

 same thing. Some cost thirty-five cents a gallon, and the 

 others are boosted up to five dollars a gallon, according to the 

 name. The mixture of creolin in equal parts of water and 

 sprayed into the nostrils of the birds and into the throat, and 

 repeated daily for three or four days will stop almost any case 

 of roup that has not gone so far that no remedy will touch it. 



Question. What do you think of kerosene? 



Dr. Wood. The gentleman knows my opinion about it, or 

 perhaps he would not ask me. I do not believe in kerosene. 

 I do not believe in carbolic acid. I believe when a man com- 

 mences to use kerosene as a remedy on his chickens I do not 

 know where he is going to bring up. I once recommended to 

 a man that he wring out a cloth perfectly dry that had been 

 soaked in kerosene, and then lightly sponge the feathers of his 



