48 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



fowls to get rid of lice. I think he gave the chickens a bath in 

 it, for he told me that the birds all died, and that they were 

 horribly blistered. That is what kerosene will do for you if 

 you are careless with it. I have just gotten a letter from a 

 man out west, who has used kerosene dips to cure roup. He 

 dipped his chickens right down into the water. I suppose he 

 attempted to make a solution, bvit he did not stop to think that 

 all of that kerosene was floating on the top of the water, and 

 that they got the full strength of the kerosene both going in 

 and coming out of the bath. 



Question. Would you advise anyone to try to cure roup 

 except with a hatchet? 



Dr. Wood. Roup is a pretty general term, but it all de- 

 pends on what the bird has. Any bird which is badly afflicted 

 with roup better be killed. And then another thing, inasmuch 

 as this gentleman is asking about roup, if you keep your birds 

 on the fresh air plan, you will not have it. 



If my neighbors' chickens never gave me any more trouble 

 than my own chickens, I would never have any trouble. That 

 is always the way. A woman wrote me the other day, and she 

 said she did wish that the board of health would become inter- 

 ested in poultry. She said her neighbor had a chicken coop 

 which, if it was a hogpen or a cow stable, the board of health 

 would be down there, but as long as it was a chicken coop they 

 did not think it was worth while to pay any attention to it. 

 The result was they were getting the roup, and they were get- 

 ting it from that one foul pen that probably had not been 

 cleaned out in the last forty years. In all that center, of course, 

 the hucksters come around and gather up the chickens, and then 

 go to a neighbor's, and the first thing the neighbor would know 

 she would have trouble, and that is the way it went all over the 

 neighborhood, and they had about the worst time with roup 

 that anybody ever had. But you can take a roupy chicken, that 

 is, one that is not afflicted with real roup, and you can feed it 

 out in an open shed, and if it is worth saving it will live. Most 

 of them will live. 



