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pus, which is the discharge present in the last two stages 

 of roup, and is the only mode in which this disease is dis- 

 seminated. 



2. In this stage, termed diphtheritic roup, the exuda- 

 tive membrane, becoming permanent and pressing upon the 

 subjacent tissue, acts as a foreign body, causing ulcera- 

 tions to appear on the surface. These ulcerations are the 

 so-called "cankers." 



3. This condition arrived at, there is a stagnation of the 

 nutritive processes, the blood becomes impaired, and scrof- 

 ula and liver disease supervene. 



These conclusions have been arrived at after studying 

 the disease for three years, during which time diseased 

 fowls have been experimented upon, killing some at the 

 various stages and dissecting them. They are easily cured 

 in the first stage, curable in the second, and not worth 

 curing in the third. 



The following will be found to be unequaled treatment 

 for all stages of the disease, combined with nutritious, soft 

 food: 



Pills. Sulphate of copper, half grain; cayenne pepper, 

 one grain; hydrastine, half grain; copaiba, three drops; 

 Venetian turpentine, quarter section. In pill, night and 

 morning. 



Lotion. Sulphate of copper quarter ounce, dissolved in 

 a pint of rain water. To wash out the mouth and nostrils, 

 if required. 



The simplest means of preventing their drinking water 

 acting as a means of spreading the disease, is to add a lit- 

 tle tar water to it, prepared by stirring about one pound 

 of tar in two gallons of water and decanting the clear 

 water as required for use. 



GAPES. These are very fine red worms found in the 

 trachea or windpipe of young birds, most destructive to 

 chicks when they are from three to six weeks old. On many 

 farms in Khode Island, gapes had caused the death of fifty 



