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result of high roosts, the feet being injured when jump- 

 ing therefrom, especially if the bird is heavy. The hurt 

 part swells, becomes inflamed, pus forms, which in time 

 grows hard and cheesy-like. The treatment is to wash 

 the hurt clean, see that no foreign substance remains in 

 it, then bathe in a lotion of one part Calendula tincture 

 to five parts water, and bind up the foot as neatly as 

 possible and keep bandage wet with the lotion ; or, in 

 place of binding the foot anoint it with Calendula 

 cerate, or lotion, and keep the fowl on clean straw. After 

 operation give Hepar sulph. if hurt has not " gathered ; " 

 if it has, give Silicea. During the few days necessary 

 for healing, the fowl should be kept caged in a clean 



place. 



Chicken-pox. 



Some writers designate this disease " small-pox." It 

 is known by blotches on the comb and neck and pus- 

 tules under the wings and feathers generally, while the 

 fowls seem weak and melancholy. Homoeopathically 

 treated it is not dangerous. The disease is contagious, 

 and the sick should be separated from the well, though 

 if the flock is pretty generally attacked let the treatment 

 extend to all. The treatment consists in dissolving from 

 one to three dozen pellets of Arsenicum, according as a 

 few or many are afflicted, in the drinking water. Con- 



