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charged with air, and so much so that the windpipe 

 severed and tied, and the wing sawn off, it will admit 

 air enough to sustain life for some time. 



Distemper, which seems to be an acclimated disease, 

 yet if neglected often results in roup, is easily detected 

 by a puffed face, deep scarlet in color, and in two or three 

 days discharges from the nostrils appear. In this disease 

 the membrane of the air-passages, tear-tube and throat 

 is inflamed; and when so much so as to close the tear- 

 tube, the discharges become acrid, and roup is the result. 

 To prevent this, it becomes necessary to check these mu- 

 cus-discharges. The use of kerosene is a handy and sure 

 cure. By holding the fowl so it cannot swallow, and 

 filling the throat with the oil, holding long enough to 

 have the oil thoroughly saturate the throat, then allow- 

 ing the same to run out of the mouth, and by washing 

 the nostrils out, and injecting a few drops into each nasal 

 passage, the effect is magical; and if attended to during 

 the first two days of the distemper, one application gen- 

 erally proves sufficient. So safe and sure is this remedy 

 that I have not used any other for the past two years. It 

 checks at once the unnatural discharges. The breathing 

 of kerosene for the twenty-four hours seems to have a 

 most marvelous effect, and restoration to health is the 

 result. By neglect we often have an attack of " roup/' 

 which is apparent inafetid breath, swollen head, and in- 

 flamed face, a throat and mouth filled with canker. No 

 matter what the cause that has brought this state of 

 things to your flock, be it bad ventilation, filthy quar- 

 ters, unclean water- vessels, or neglect to remove roupy 

 specimens till by the taint of the water by drinking in 

 the same vessel the whole flock is effected, it is safe, when 

 a part of the fowls are so affected, to reason that the en- 

 tire flock is in a measure poisoned in blood, and means 

 should be taken to-prevent its spreading. If we in such 

 a case put in the water- vessel bromide of potassium to 



