fasten the box to the top of the chimney over the 

 top and about an inch above it, so as to leave a 

 good draft for lamp. If you cannot find a box of 

 convenient size, get a small cake pan or saucepan, 

 and fit a flat tin lid to it. Having your vaporizer 

 complete, keep on hand (in air-tight jar or box) a 

 supply of carbonate of ammonia and gum cam- 

 phor. 



When you discover any colds, wheezing or sneez- 

 ing among your flocks, mark the house or the 

 houses, and after dark cover all the cracks and 

 close the doors and windows, and having put a 

 convenient quantity of carbonate of ammonia and 

 green camphor in the tin box (two ounces of car- 

 bonate of ammonia to one ounce of green cam- 

 phor), light the lamp, and burn it in the poultry 

 house. The two ingredients being volatile, will 

 vaporize and fill all parts of the house. Burn 

 until the fowls move about on the perches and 

 show signs of uneasiness, and the vapor gives 

 a strong, pungent odor. If the birds attempt 

 to leave the roosts, remove the vaporizer. For 

 an ordinary cold one fumigation will generally 

 effect a cure, and the fowls need not be removed 

 from their house ; it is also a good preventive 

 to be used occasionally when colds or roup are 

 prevalent in your neighborhood. Cases of roup, 

 diphtheria, canker, etc., should be removed to 

 a quarantine and treated there. Our advice is 

 to kill and burn them at once ; but as we 

 know that some will not do this, then we must 

 advise what is next best. Having placed these 

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