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Another thing to bear in mind in this operation, as well as in 

 other operations, always have everything- perfectly clean. When 

 this precaution is taken the operation is generally successtul. 



CHAPTER IV. 



DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF POULTRY. 



ROUP. 



Roup is considered by all poultry men the worst and most 

 dreaded disease that can aflflict poultry. 



C^USe. — From germs settling in the throat, or it may be caused 

 from neglected colds. 



There are many remedies for roup, but we think the following 

 as is given in " Success With Poultry," is one of the very best : 



Treatment. — Pen the fowl in warm, dry quarters, and keep out 

 all drafts of cold and damp air. Feed hot bran, mashed potatoes 

 and meat, and medicate the throat, mouth and nostrils with 

 cloride of sodium or common salt, as follows : Take a bucketful 

 of warm water ; put a teacupful of salt in this amount of water ; 

 then catch the fowl, examine the throat and nostrils, removing 

 all mucous matter out of the nostrils, and then filling a pint cup for 

 each afflicted fowl, hold it by the feet — head down, choke it until 

 the mouth is wide open and then insert the head into the solution. 

 Comb down, so the medicated water may enter the clift in the 

 palate and go out at each nostril and into the throat. Each 



