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can easily be either brought up by the insertion of a wire or 

 feather, or so loosened that the bird can cough them up. The 

 inhalation of tobacco smoke, and other useless and uncertain 

 modes, are ten times more distressing to the Chicken, and do 

 not produce the desired effect. 



" Those writers, too, are totally wrong who recommend the 

 attempt to destroy fasciolae by thrusting down a straw and oil 

 into the windpipe. Pray do not try the method, as I have 

 suffered enough by it ; the straw being a bad thing in itself, 

 and the oil, the smallest quantity of which stops respiration, 

 and is therefore used by entomologists to kill insects, still worse. 

 Several Chicks have died under my hands by it. But the 

 proper and only successful way is, adroitly to put a small 

 wire, or feather without any web, except at 1 the farther end, 

 down the windpipe. Give the wire a few turns, and the fas- 

 ciolae will come up at the end, or the bird will cough them 

 up. This will, of course, only do for Chicks not less than a 

 fortnight or three weeks old ; younger ones will not stand it, 

 and must be left to their fate, unless turpentine will save them. 

 Smoking them in a watering-pot, after Montague's plan, is a 

 doubtful remedy, and much more punishment to the birds. 



" This season (1848) the fasciolse have troubled me a little, 

 and I have extracted some, but my hand is not in for it this 

 year. The disease seems more a slight annoyance and hin- 

 drance to their growth, than the fatal sweeping pest it is some- 

 times. I thought I would try turpentine, and find it, as I ex- 

 pected, perfectly useless. As, however, the fasciolae are some- 

 times too small to be brought up, turpentine might be of ad- 

 vantage to dip the end of the wire or feather before putting it 

 down the trachea. 



" I do not think fasciolae are ever engendered by wet; but 

 Chickens that have the disorder, in itself a weakening one, 

 become very much affected by a degree of damp that would 

 not otherwise have injured them. Fasciolae have raged with 



