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it will nor require dressing with 

 vitrol. Another recipe for canker 

 that I can recommend is to paint 

 with carbolic acid with eight times 

 the quantity of glycerine added to it. 

 Powdered blue stone is also a good 

 thing sprinkled on the place af- 

 fected. 



Hour. This complaint is generally 

 caused through draughts or damp 

 places, and causes a running at the 

 nostrils nor eyes. If the birds are 

 treated in time it is easy to cure, but 

 if you neglect the bird it will take a 

 long time to get better, and unless it 

 is removed from the loft the other 

 birds will catch the disease. Put 

 the bird in a warm place by itself 

 and give it a pinch of salt twice a 

 day and boiled milk to drink instead 

 of water, if this will not cure it a 

 pinch of Epsom salts once a day will 

 often cure the roup in the nostrils 

 when other remedies have failed. 



