304 SOFT EGGS. 



the proper remedy, and may be relied upon for a 

 cure. Give it as often as three, or even four times, 

 per day, in extreme cases. Of course the severe 

 cases should be well housed, have warm and dry 

 lodgings, free from exposure of open windows and 

 cold drafts of air, as the bird is liable to new chill 

 from fresh exposure. Washing the head and syring 

 ing out the nose, and washing the throat with salt 

 and vinegar, or even with water and castile soap, is 

 rarely necessary and lealiy of very little conse- 

 quence. As the catarrh passes off the secretions 

 will become healthy and natural, and all these dis- 

 charges disappear. 



Rump-Ail, or Wry Tail. 



These are conditions arising from faulty organiza- 

 tion or insufficient keep, and have for symptoms 

 constipation, drooping head, ruffled feathers, or the 

 tail carried to one side. In some cases a swelling 

 appears upon the rump which may suppurate and 

 form an abscess, which had better be opened if mat- 

 ter has formed. The SPECIFIC J J is the proper 

 remedy, and may be given two or three times per 

 day. Where such conditions appear at all fre- 

 quently in a breed of fowls, it indicates an inherent 

 weakness, and the breed had better be changed or 

 crossed with more vigorous stock. 



Soft Eggs 



May be a sign of over-feeding, but is more common- 

 ly from the want of material of which to form the 

 shell lime, starch, sulphur, etc. The flock should 

 have an occasional feed of mashed potatoes and 

 lime, old mortar, burnt oyster shells, pounded up, 

 should be placed in reach. An occasional dose of 

 SPECIFIC J J will be beneficial. 



