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tliein do when aflUctcd with pneumonia, it will be 

 found that the lungs are very red and full of blood, 

 and portions of them when cut off and placed in a 

 vessel G'f water will sink instead of floating as pieces 

 of healthy or slightly diseased hmgs do. The air tubes 

 are filled with a yellowish or reddish frothy fluid 

 which in siome eases is expelled in small quantities 

 during life. 



The treatn:ent of these cases is not profitable, be- 

 cause so few of them recover. If. however, one wishes 

 to treat aii especially valuable fowl, and will consent 

 to devote the time and care to the case ilml it requires, 

 good results may follow. 



Half a teaspoor.ful of whiskey in a little warm 

 water, togetlier wilh from 2 to 3 grains of saltpetre 

 and ammonium carbonate may be administered at in- 

 tervals of ficm three to four hours. It is also well to 

 cause tlie fowl to inhale fumes of burning sulphur, but 

 this vajvor sliould not be administered in a concen- 

 trated form. The fnw] must be kept in a warm, drv 

 place. 



