A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



smoke fill the box completely. The chicks 

 may be nearly suffocated to advantage, but 

 be careful not to go to an extreme. Now 

 take them out, and five minutes afterwards 

 give each chick a mouthful of corn-meal 

 dough, to which spirits of turpentine has 

 been added in proportion of a teaspoonful 

 of turpentine to half a pint of corn meal. 

 The smoke of the tar and turpentine is 

 harmless, and it is also excellent for roup, 

 colds, and debility. There is a notion among 

 some that they must remove what they call 

 the "pip" from the end of the bill of each 

 young chick, which is useless and unneces- 

 sary; and red pepper is often given when 

 there is no occasion for doing so. 



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