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Hen Health. 



infected yards may be made safe by soaking the ground with 

 one of the above solutions. 



Roup or Croup. The usual causes of roup are cold, damp- 

 ness, wet, and exposure. Although apparently contagious, 

 the outbreak and spreading of the disease are probably due 

 primarily to the surroundings instead oE being transmitted 

 from fowl to fowl as in the cholera. The symptoms are, loss 

 of appetite, dullness, ruffled feathers ; the breathing becomes 

 rapid, accompanied by a wheezing or crowing sound. There 

 is a discharge from the nose and mouth, at first thin and later 

 thick and foetid. The head and eyes frequently become swollen. 

 Yellowish white fibers and raw sores appear upon the tongue 

 or in the mouth and throat. The nostrils are frequently 

 swollen shut so that the animal is obliged to breathe through 

 the mouth. Red swellings and false membranes also fre- 

 quently appear on the face, about the eyes and on the combs 

 and wattles. Diarrhoea usually sets in later. In the treat- 

 ment of this disease a change of food is usually desirable. 

 Feed green or cooked food vegetables and puddings of rice, 

 oat or corn-meal. The false membranes may be removed 

 with the forceps, and the swellings and raw sores bathed with 

 a solution of nitrate of silver 15 to 20 grains in a wine-glass 

 of water. Dissolve a dram of chlorate of potash in each pint 

 of drinking water. If the head is much swollen, bathing two 

 or three times daily with water acidulated with vinegar or bo- 

 racic acid will afford relief. If there is diarrhoea, give a grain 

 of sulphate of copper, a teaspoonful of quinia wine or brandy 

 twice or three times daily. A little Cayenne pepper may be 

 advantageously mixed with the food. Provide the sick fowls 

 with a comfortable, dry, warm, sunny place. 



BRIEF NOTES ON FOWL DISEASES. 



P. H. JACOBS. 



The disease most prevalent in the fall, winter and spring is 

 roup, which kills more fowls in this country than cholera and 

 all other causes combined. Roup is due to colds, and may be 



