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preventive of gapes? I believe it will be if given twice a week in the water 

 with other proper care. 



2. Gapes in Chickens.— Certain Preventive.— A correspondent 

 of the Germautown Telegraph, who lost 70 chickens the year before now says : 

 "That fresh water daily with a lump of roll brimstone kept in it will be found 

 a certain preventive." 



Remarks. — From my knowledge of the value of sulphur in diphtheria, I 

 I have great faith in it as a preventive in gapes, as both diseases are supposed 

 to arise from living parasites in the throat, and sulphur is death to them. I 

 should prefer, however, to sprinkle in flour of sulphur along the drinking 

 trough, to ensure a better distribution of it in all the water. A tea-spoonful 

 to a quart would be sufficient, and the water stirred before the chickens come 

 to it. And if allowed free access to it, I have no doubt, they would pick at 

 the sulphur and eat considerable of it. Why not, by the way, miy this 

 amount of sulphur in a quart of their food, made by wetting up corn and oat- 

 meal ground together, whenever there is gapes about, especially in wet 

 weather, if they have to be allowed to run out. I know, from the nature of 

 it, it will pay. (See also sulphur in roup, below.) And this mixed feed twice 

 a week, is all the corn, or corn-meal poultry ought to have in smnmer, as corn 

 or corn-meal alone is too heating a food for warm weather. Other grains 

 named previously, with scraps of meat, cooked vegetables, etc., should make 

 the summer food. Boiled carrots are especially valuable. 



1. Roup in Poultry— Description of Successful Treatment, 

 Boup Pills, etc.— I will first give an item from the London (Ont.) Free Press, 

 because it gives the description of it, its cause, treatment, and the roup pills, 

 which can be used in the powder form if preferred, by mixing it in the feed of 

 corn and oat-meal mash, saving the trouble of catching each fowl and^orctng 

 a pill down its throat. It says: 



" "Whenever you have a northeast storm, with damp, chilly, disagreeable 

 weather, look out for the roup. Roup is to the fowls what heavy colds are to 

 human individuals, and as we may have cold in the head, cold in the bowels, 

 sore throat, and other disturbances from cold, the term ' roup ' covers them all. 

 Roup in some forms is contagious, while in other shapes it may exist in a flock 

 without affecting any but those of weak constitutions. The first thing to do 

 with the affected fowl is to clean out the nostrils, and every breeder should 

 have on hand a small syringe, which should be put to use early. Roup, when 

 malignant, makes known it8 presence by a peculiar, disagreeable odor. The 

 sick fowl looks drospy, and a slight pressure on the nostrils causes a discharge, 

 which is very offensive in smell." 



I. Of Roup Treatment: " Make a solution of copperas water, and with 

 the syringe inject some of it into the nostrils, and also down the throat. [I 

 would use the tonic, of full strength, for tliis purpose; having the acid in it 

 makes it better than without.] If the bird is no better in a few hours, try a 

 severer remedy, which is the injection of a mixture of coal oil and carbolic 

 acid. Add 10 drops of carbolic acid to 1 table-spoonful of coal oil, and force a 

 small quantity into each nostril. This will cure when all other remedies fail, 

 Night and morning give the roup pills or powder, either in the food or by 

 forcing it do^vn the throat. Add some, also, to the food of those that are 

 n-ell." 



