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me in the driest and hottest summers. You will observe, in 

 those I sent, that each worm is furnished with a large round 

 head and mouth, like the head of a pin, by which to attach 

 itself to the inner membrane of the trachea. A larger speci- 

 men than the one I sent (it is about an inch long) has not 

 yet occurred to me ; but I know not how large they may grow. 

 My way of late years has been to confine the Hens very much 

 in large coops, and move them to entirely fresh places every 

 other day, when the Chicks forage for insects. There is one 

 thing with regard to the number of Chickens asserted to be 

 reared by the Chiswick hydro-incubator, which I cannot un- 

 derstand, viz , how so many young birds can be reared together 

 without producing disease, and especially the fascioke or gapes. 

 In my own experience (and in some seasons we have killed 

 one hundred and seventy for the table in the coarse of the 

 year) I am generally obliged to move the broods from yards 

 and houses to open fields, and if a place is selected where no 

 Chicks have ever been reared, so much the better. How Can- 

 telo manages I know not : perhaps his establishment has not 

 yet been many years in the same place. On a farm newly 

 built, and ground reclaimed, I would undertake to breed any 

 number, as this overcrowding (which Mowbray called the 

 1 taint') is the origin of nearly every disorder." H. H. These 

 are useful and practical remarks ; but it will be only doing 

 justice to the merits of turpentine, which is a powerful vermi- 

 fuge, to give the report of another case. 



"I have not been unsuccessful or rather, I should say, a 

 deaf and dumb brother of mine in raising Fowls this year 

 (1847). My first two trips of Chicks had the ' gapes' very 

 badly. I gave them, a little spirit of turpentine in rice, and 

 afterwards put a little salt in the water given to them, and saved 

 sixteen out of twenty. To all the Chicks since hatched, I gave 

 salt in their water, and I have about eighty without any sick- 

 ness. The reason of success from this treatment is very clear. 



