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to do this in every case. You know I wrote you several times about losing 

 my young chicks with the Roup. Well, I lost three lots 150 in all. I kept 

 on trying, and, after using the Spongia, 1 have only lost a few, and will have 

 winter frys instead of spring frys." 



Another correspondent writes as follows : 



" I am now prepared to state unconditionally that Spongia did it ; circum- 

 stances as more favorable weather, and my own rather costly experience 

 of last year may have had something to do with it ; but the facts are that, 

 from July, 1889, when the roup invaded my flocks, until February, 1890, 

 when by dint of the ' survival of the fittest,' health was again in a measure 

 restored in my poultry house, my chickens have yielded me very little in- 

 come, and less pleasure ; handling and dosing, isolating and fumigating, 

 until I was almost suffocated and entirely disgusted. One-third of my 

 entire flock succumbed. Fact is also that although not a believer in 

 homoeopathic remedies, I used Spongia this year on the strength of the 

 Poultry Keeper's recommendation, as soon as the dreadful disease showed 

 itself, about the middle of August, and the last and most satisfactory fact is 

 that my hens and chickens never were in better health than they are now, 

 and have been since the beginning of September ; only a single chicken 

 out of 150 having died of the disease. Certainly, single examples do not 

 prove a case, but if the experience of many others, which will not be slow 

 to come in, should show that in Spongia we have a simple and effective 

 remedy against as terrible a scourge as roup, the poultry fraternity may 

 well congratulate itself and thank the Poultry Keeper." 



The foregoing was written by a gentleman in Wis- 

 consin. Here is a bit of experience from one, a citizen 

 of New York : 



" I had about twenty cases of roup in my flock this fall. I tried turpen- 

 tine, glycerine and carbolic acid, in proper proportions, without effecting a 

 single cure, and also used chloralum and several other remedies without 

 any good effect. I commenced Spongia about a week ago, and part of them 

 are now well, and there is a very marked improvement in the rest of the 



