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eries recommended ; and nature will generally 

 effect a cure if her efforts are seconded by 

 simple means on our own part." 



Disease is most frequently the effect of 

 some error in diet or management, and may 

 generally be cured by immediately adopt- 

 ing a different course of regimen : as to 

 remedies^ they are within your own power ; 

 for if the few rational rules of strict atten- 

 tion to cleanliness, dryness, warmth, and good 

 feeding, be acted upon, fowls will very rarely 

 become sick ; nor is there anything more 

 simple than the successful rearing of all 

 sorts of poultry. We shall therefore only 

 give a succinct account of the chief maladies 

 to which they are exposed; of which the 

 roup, the pip, and fever, are the most pro- 

 minent ; for moulting, as being natural to the 

 constitution, cannot properly be called " dis- 

 ease," and accidents cannot be guarded 

 against. As to any chronic disease, the 

 surest remedy is to wring their neck. 



The roup, although commonly applied to 

 several of those ailments which sometimes 

 attack every species of fowl, in consequence 

 of improper management, may be more justly 



