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to do it more than twice at the same time ; but if the chicken 

 gapes the day after, you may be sure there are some still 

 remaining, and the operation must be repeated. 



We have thus copied the minutiae of these 

 details from the gentleman who frirnished 

 them, as he states that the operation is a sure 

 cure for this fatal disorder ; he having the 

 last year had the greatest part of his chickens 

 — more than a hundred in number — very 

 severely attacked, and having only lost one ; 

 while the rest, after having been treated in 

 this manner, recovered to perfect health. 



We should also add, that if a lump of salt 

 butter be mixed with some soft-soap, or strong 

 Scotch snuff, and pushed gently down the 

 throat, it is said by many persons to have the 

 effect of destroying the worms ; but we ima- 

 gine that, even in this case, it is necessary 

 to strip the thickened membrane from the 

 tongue. 



Fever is a common attendant upon this 

 malady, and, in such young creatures, admits 

 of no peculiar remedy, for they cannot be re- 

 moved from the fostering care of the parent 

 hen ; but, when older fowls are thus afflicted, 

 the better way is to remove the patient to a 



