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IT. Roup Pills — "How to make Roup Pills," the Free Press continues, 

 " is what most persons desire to know. The basis of all roup pills or powders 

 is asafetida. This is combined with tonics and cathartics. Here is the 

 method, and by which a large quantity may be made at a small cost. Take 1 

 tea-spoonful each of tincture of muriate of iron, red pepper, ginger, saffron, 

 chlorate of potash, salt, and powdered rhubarb ; mix them intimately. After 

 thoroughly mixing add 3 table-spoonfuls of hypo-sulphate of soda, and mix 

 together well. Then incorporate this with 1 oz. of asafetida, working it 

 together until the whole is completely mingled, occasionally softening it, when- 

 ever necessary, with castor-oil. This can be made into pills or dry powder. 

 It is of the same composition as many of the roup pills, which are sold at 50 

 cents a box." 



Remarks. — Unless fowls are bad, mixing this in the powder form into the 

 feed will be the least trouble, mixing in enough so each fowl would get what 

 would make a common sized pilL If the tonic is used to inject a little into the 

 nostrils, as in No. I. above, only a little, say }^ tea-spoonful would be enough 

 to inject into the throats at one time ; and it might do if reduced half with 

 water. The mouth, throat, eyes and nostrils, if much stuck up with the dis- 

 charge, should be washed out clean with warm water, then sponged with the 

 reduced tonic water, just above named, and for the eyes it might be reduced 

 with two or three times as much water as of the tonic. I should prefer this to 

 the carbolic acid and kerosene, or coal oil. The following with sulphur, or 

 the next one after, with aconite, may be preferred. 



2. Cure for Roup, "with Sulphur.— An agricultural writer says: 

 ' 'Last fall I had two roosters affected ; the first one was almost choked to 



death when I found him, a hard, cheesy substance having formed in the wind- 

 pipe. I had saved the lives of others by taking it out with the point of a 

 scissors. In this case I took a piece of writing paper, made a funnel the size 

 of a child's finger, opened the beak and another person blew a half tea-spoonful 

 of sulphur down his throat. We put him out, I supposed, to die, but he did 

 not, and after the third dose he could crow as loudly as ever." 



Remarks. — Sulphur has cured hundreds of cases of diphtheria of children, 

 why not cure roup in fowls? It undoubtedly did, and will, again. 



3. Roup— Cure with Aconite, from the Canada Poultry 

 Chronicle. The Chronicle says: 



"When the fowl is attacked with the characteristic cough of this malady, 

 or has tenacious mucus about the beak with difficulty of breathing, I place it 

 in a wicker coop, in a quiet shed, and put before it a drinking fountain con- 

 taining about a gill (4 ozs.) of water, with which I have mixed one drop of 

 tincture of aconite. In every instance during three years, this treatment has 

 had an effect almost marvelous; for upon visiting the patient an hour or two 

 afterwards, I have found that the symptoms have vanished. The attack for a 

 day or two is liable to return, yet each time in a lighter form, but, continuing 

 the aconite water has in no instance with us failed completely to remove the 

 ailment in about forty-eight hours." 



Remarks.— li so bad when found, that they will not drink, pour a tea spoon- 

 ful of the aconite water down the throat, occasionally, once in an hour or two, 

 ( until they can drink it. 



Scabby Legs of Poultry— Mix equal parts of lard and kerosene oil 

 Into a paste, with sulphur, and rub upon the legs daily until the scabs come 



