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coolest place you have, but do not turn the package over at all ; the eggs 

 will keep longer if left undisturbed. I have kept eggs thus packed 

 from the middle of April until the middle of September in a cellar 

 where the temperature ranged from 50 to GO , and they were good, 

 every one of them, at the expiration of that time. Chaff, bran^ 

 ashes, sawdust, etc., are liable to make the eggs * taste,' especially 

 if there be any dampness in the place where the eggs are kept; and 

 according to my notion the chaff is about the most objectionable 

 packing material that could be used, for it is liable to give the 

 eggs a ' musty ' flavor that is 99 per cent more disagreeable 

 than a * piney ' taste." 



DISEASES OF FOWLS. 



Remedy for Roup. 



To cure the roup, when a bird is attacked with the characteris- 

 tic cough of the malady, or has tenacious mucus about the beak, 

 with difficulty of breathing, place it in a wicker-coop in a quiet 

 shed, and put before it a drinking fountain containing about a gill 

 of water with which is mixed one drop of solution of aconite, third 

 potency (may be had of any Homo3Opathic physician). In every 

 instance this treatment has an effect almost marvelous, the symp- 

 toms disappearing in an hour or two. The attack for a day or two 

 is liable to return, yet each time in a lighter form; but continuing 

 the medicine will completely remove the ailment in about forty- 

 eight hours. In case the disease should have made so much pro- 

 gress before it is observed that the sufferer is unable to drink, it will 

 be necessary to give the dose. This is easily accomplished by pour- 

 ing into the throat about a teaspoonful of the water every hour. 

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Another treatment for roup, a contagious disease, is to separ- 

 ate the well from the sick and place them in clean quarters. If sick 

 fowls get worse kill and burn them. The housing place should be 

 disinfected by being shut up and thoroughly fumigated by" burning 

 sulphur and tar together in an iron pot, to produce a thick smoke. 

 Continue this for two hours. Of course the fowls must be first re- 

 moved. Each sick fowl should have a tablespoonful of castor oil. 

 The nostrils should be washed out by inserting the pipe of a small 

 syringe in the slit in the roof of the mouth, charged with one part 

 of chloride of soda to two parts of water. Three hours after giving 

 the oil prepare the following: Piperine, one-half drachm; balsam 

 copaiba, one-half ounce, and licorice powder, one-fourth ounce; 

 mix; divide into thirty doses and give twice a day. 



