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CHAPTER XIV. 



Diseases : regimen and remedies — The roup, and its causes 

 — Notion of its being infectious — The pip and gapes : 

 symptoms and manner of treatment — Fever — Crop-sick,, 

 and means of cure — Moulting — Old age and death — 

 Mode of killing — General treatment — Poultry-maid. 



Poultry are liable to various diseases, and 

 were we to enumerate all the farrago of ail- 

 ments, including even asthma, gout, and 

 rheumatism, and their remedies plausibly 

 detailed in publications on the subject, we 

 should have to copy a list which would deter 

 any one from keeping them. We can how- 

 ever safely affirm, that if proper care be taken, 

 health may be easily maintained among them ; 

 and we agree with a sensible writer in the 

 ' Quarterly Journal of Agriculture,' that 

 " those who listen to the advice of the igno- 

 rant and prejudiced, nay they who seek from 

 books remedies for disorders which may ap- 

 pear among their live-stock, will have to 

 contend with monstrous absurdities, excessive 

 ignorance, and barbarous cruelty in the quack- 



