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mild form and the medicine is administered in the very first 

 stages. With all these remedies, except No. 4, give the Douglass 

 mixture freely a table-spoonful to a pint of water in the drink ; 

 but do not allow the fowls to drink much at a time. 



1. Two drachms of calomel mixed with one quart of corn- 

 meal ; feed twice a day. 



2. Calomel and blue mass in two grain doses, or four grains 

 of blue mass mixed with two grains each of gum camphor and 

 cayenne pepper ; give twice a day. 



3. Powdered chalk, powdered charcoal, gum camphor, assa- 

 foetida, and pure carbolic acid, equal parts ; mix all together and 

 feed in the proportion of one tea-spoonful to every ten fowls. 

 Give in soft food twice a day. 



4. Fowler's solution, one ounce ; aqua ammonia, half an ounce ; 

 water, one gallon ; mix. Give this to the fowl to drink in mod- 

 erate quantity three times a day. Allow no other drink. 



5. Hyposulphite of soda; half a level tea-spoonful, in as much 

 water as will dissolve it, is a dose for a grown fowl. Give once 

 a day for three days. 



Roup is the most troublesome, offensive, and, with the single 

 exception of cholera, the most fatal disease that the poultry 

 raiser has to fight against. In his book on poultry diseases, H. 

 H. Stoddard says : " Roup is a disease of the lining membrane 

 of the beak, extending, however, to the whole head and throat, 

 through the tear duct to the eye, and finally affecting the whole 

 constitution. In fatal cases death ensues in three to eight days 

 after the specific roup symptoms show themselves, and cases 

 not treated are generally fatal whenever the malady appears as 

 an epidemic in its severe form. There are many other names 

 under which this malady is often described swelled eyes, diph- 

 theria, sore head, hoarseness, bronchitis, asthma, snuffles, canker, 

 blindness, influenza, sore throat, quinsy, etc. but some of these 

 conditions may exist even when roup is not present." 



Roup never comes without a cause, and the cause generally 

 comes from neglected colds among fowls that are kept in damp, 

 sunless, filthy, ill-ventilated houses. Fowls bike cold from un- 

 due exposure to cold and wet, roosting in draughts and in damp 



