DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 763 



Bemarka. — It is a disiofectant, keeping the drinking vessels free from 

 living bacteria or mites, of living animals, from which it has been recently 

 claimed, that cholera of persons arises. Once a week, or so, then, let more of 

 it be put into the drinking vessels, and scrubbed around with an old broom, 

 then nicely rinsed and turned up to the sun and dried, after the fowls have 

 had their morning drink and gone upon their daily excursion for grasshoppers 

 and other pickings, 



L Gapes in Poultry.^ Cause and Suooeesful Remedies.— 

 I. Cause. — Although this disease is believed to be contagious and epidemic, 

 i. e, one catches it from another, and is liable to affect a whole neighborhood, 

 yet it is claimed to originate from foul water, exposures to wet, and a want of 

 nourishing food- Then look out that none of these are allowed, and avoid 

 gapes. The gapes are caused by the preeeoce of worms or maggots in the 

 heart, and trachea, or windpipe, which nuiket them gape, or, perhaps, more 

 correctly speaking, to gasp for breath. 



EL Remedies.— Camphor spirits, 1 or 2 tear^poonfuls to 1 qt. of their 

 drinking water at the commencement may prove all that is needed ; but if any 

 become bad, a bit of camphor gum the siie of a grain of wheat, for a chick, 

 and of a small pea for an older fowl, put into the throat and retained there 

 untU swallowed, is claimed to be a "Bare cure." But a tea-spoonful of cam- 

 phor spirits should also be put into each quart of their drinking water. 



IIL Tobacco. — Smoking them by putting the lot into a box, or boxes, 

 with a pan of live coals in it, upon which sprinkle fine cut tobacco, covering 

 up the box and smoking them till drunk. Says R L. Scott in the Blade, "1 

 will warrant every chicken." 



IV. Salt Butter has cured bad cases, giving in the morning while they 

 are hungry they will eat it readily. If too sick to eat put some down, the 

 first time, the next morning they will eat it of themselTos. Giving two or 

 three times will generally be^ sufficient. Thia, with pepper, is reoommended 

 below. 



V. Black Pepper.— A Mrs. M. D. Bush, of Saline, Mich., informs the 

 Detroit Ihtt a'nd Triburu: " Obtaining the grain pepper and grinding it, one 

 tea-spoonful is mixed In a half tearsxxxjnful of Indian meal with a little water. 

 Open the chicken's mouth, drop in one pill of It per day till cured. One dose 

 will usually cure them, if given when first taken. Have seen no lice at alL" 



Remaa-kt,— Seeing " no lice at all," ahows she took good care of her chick- 

 ens. 



Another writer says that two or three grains of ground black pepper in % 

 Kttle fresh butter (it may be fresh made, but I prefer it salted as for table), two 

 or three times a day for a week cures gapea. I have no doubt they will eat if; 

 readily, as I know they are fond of the stimulating taste of cayenne; why not 

 then of the black? I believe the cayenne to be the better of the two for this 

 disease. Many writers speak very highly of giving the camphor pills and 

 putting it in their drinking water, one next below of brimstone as a preven< 

 tive; why should not the use of the tonic, given in cholera above, be also a 



