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and die. Various methods of treatment are in vogue, all of 

 which are more or less successful, but none entirely so. Tur- 

 pentine or strong camphor placed upon the outside of the 

 throat, to be inhaled, is relied upon by many, and is very suc- 

 cessful. A few drops of either may also be placed in the food. 

 Another method is to place the chicks in a covered box, in the 

 bottom of which is a layer of air-slaked quick-lime. The box 

 is shaken to "raise a dust," which the chicks are forced to in- 

 hale for one or two minutes not longer. Either method 

 should be repeated on any of the birds showing the first indi- 

 cation of gaping. The worms may be partially or entirely re- 

 moved with a small twisted loop of horse-hair or with a hen's- 

 feather stripped of its plumes except near the tip. The mouth 

 being well opened by an assistant, the loop or feather is to be 

 carefully introduced into the opening seen in the middle of the 

 back part of the tongue, and pushed gently down the windpipe 

 to its lower end, a distance of two or three inches ; then twist 

 it around several times as it is gradually withdrawn. If suc- 

 cessful, one or more of the red worms will be removed. The 

 operation may be repeated two or three times, and again at in- 

 tervals whenever necessary. The chicks must be handled very 

 carefully or the treatment will be worse than the disease. If 

 the loop or feather is dipped in camphor, turpentine, salt or 

 tobacco solution, the worms not removed may be killed and 

 later coughed up by the chicks. [Turpentine has succeeded 

 with us. EDS.] 



To prevent the spread of the disease, burn all of the worms 

 found and also the dead animals, or at least their respiratory 

 organs. Move the young birds to new quarters and saturate 

 the ground of the old quarters with a strong solution of salt, 

 coal oil, kerosene or turpentine. In generally infected locali- 

 ties it may be necessary to keep the young fowls indoors or on 

 a concrete floor or platform outside. This is an effectual pre- 

 ventive on the worst-infected places, if care is taken that no 

 infected food or water is supplied. Pure rain or spring- water 

 should be used, otherwise the water should be boiled. Small 

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