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Mr. Johu G. Bergen — This has been a hard winter upon grape- 

 vines. My lonas and Israellas are not killed, hut are so small 

 and feeble at three 3^ears old, they might as well be dead as alive. 

 About ten years ago Isabellas and Catawbas suffered greatly. 

 Grape-growers must not be discouraged by one extra hard winter. 



Dr. Trimble said the " Union Village" was very badly injured 

 at Norwalk, N. J. 



Insects in Salt. 



Dr. Trimble exhibited a specimen of salt, infested with insects 

 which breed in that substance. This he did to show that salt is 

 not destructive to all animal life. 



Roup in Fomt^s. 

 Mr. P. P. Bates, Schuyler's Lake, Otsego Co., N. Y.: I would 

 say to Mr. Geo. L. Squier, of Buffalo, that his fowls undoubtedly 

 have the roup. I have sometimes thought it developed in fowls 

 something like diphtheria in human beings. It is contagious but 

 not epidemic. It is sometimes originated by dampness and filth 

 in the roosting place, impure air from ill ventilation, unwholesome 

 food, brackish or stagnant water, and especially by roosting in a 

 building exposed to a draught of air. Fowls like to roost high 

 and dry, and let no air blow on and beyond them ; let one or two 

 sides of the roost be impervious to wdnd or storm. The general 

 directions in poultry books is to kill roupy fowls at once, that is 

 as soon as attacked, if of common stock. I would do so; if valua- 

 ble, I would tr}^ my luck with a few remedies. I have lost valua- 

 ble fowls wntli roup, and I have saved some with it, so blind for 

 days that I had to put all their food and water down their throats. 

 Remove to a dry, warm place ; warmth, even close to the fire is 

 grateful and very beneficial to them ; pure cold v^-ater, if able to 

 drink, and corn, wheat, or rice for food ; a good dose of calomel 

 (and I am not particular as to amount), and jalep or common gar- 

 den rhubarb to purge them, wash the mouth and nose in alum and 

 vinegar, bathe the throat in some irritating liniment, and I have 

 sometimes given ten or twelve drops of Organum oil in a teaspoon 

 of Olive oil, or lard, with very marked remedial effect, and always, 

 and frequently put a small quantity of red pepper, dry, into the 

 mouth and throat. Powdered charcoal is sometimes beneficial, as 

 the development of the disease is very corrupt and ofiensive. I 

 saved a beautiful little African Bantam cock bird by giving him 



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