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Putrid affections are prevented by occasionally mixing pulver- 

 ized charcoal with the food of chickens. 



To Cure Gapes. 



When taken in the first stages, camphor will relieve this diffi- 

 culty. Give a portion, the size of a wheat-grain, daily, and put 

 camphor in the drinking water. Spirits of turpentine will often 

 accomplish the same purpose. It may be given in meal. At the 

 same time improve the deficiencies of diet and shelter your fowls; a 

 want of which are the causes of this difficulty. In very severe cases 

 of gapes, if it is desirable, they can be relieved by introducing a 

 loop of horse-hair into the windpipe, and turning it around during 

 its withdrawal; this will bring out the worm, the cause of this diffi- 

 culty. Frequently it is necessary to repeat the operation in order to 

 extract all the worms. Small portions of dough mixed with soft- 

 soap, given once or twice, is reputed a cure for gapes. 



To Cure Egg-Eating Hens. 



This habit can be often cured by breaking an egg, sprinkling 

 the contents with Cayenne pepper, arid turning the egg around so as 

 to get the pepper below the yolk; after which place the egg in the 

 nest or where the hen will get it. It is seldom that the dose will 

 have to be repeated. Hens very seldom, if ever, eat their eggs when 

 they are properly supplied with lime, gravel and animal food. If 

 the habit cannot be broken, put up the hens addicted to the vice and 

 fatten them for the market or table, else the whole flock may become 

 addicted to the habit. 



THE APIARY. 



CARE AtfD MANAGEMENT OF BEES. 



Bees as an Investment It is a question whether or not 

 in many localities the culture of bees may fairly be considered as 

 strictly a branch of agricultural industry; that is, one which can be 

 advantageously pursued in connection with other sources of profit 

 which belong to the farm. To keep bees successfully requires an 

 intimate acquaintance with the science of bee-culture, and an ex- 

 penditure of care, time and patience, for small results, which few 

 farmers can well afford to spare from more important pursuits. 

 Where bee farming is conducted on an extensive scale, it has been 

 known to prove very profitable; but on the other hand, the number 

 of failures is so great in proportion, that the result of experience may 



