POULTRY DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. 1127 



cholera. As the disease is communicated from one fowl to an- 

 other by the discharge from the nostrils and eyes, particular at- 

 tention should be paid to the cleansing and disinfecting of feed 

 troughs and drinking vessels. For this purpose use the disin- 

 fecting solution of copperas, carbolic acid, and water. If the 

 sick fowls have not advanced beyond the first stage of the dis- 

 ease, give them a large dose, say a dessert-spoonful apiece of 

 castor-oil at night, and for the next three or four days feed only 

 cooked food, with plenty of pepper or ginger, and pulverized 

 charcoal mixed in; give the Douglass mixture freely in the drink- 

 ing water, and it would be well enough to give three drops daily 

 for two or three days in succession of the solution of carbolic 

 acid recommended for cholera. This course of treatment will 

 generally cure in a week. 



If the disease reaches the second stage before treatment is 

 begun, give the dose of castor oil, and afterwards use " German 

 Roup Pills," according to directions. The genuine German 

 roup pills will cure roup if used before the disease reaches the 

 last stage. Besides the pills give the charcoal in the food and 

 the Douglass mixture in the drink. If ulcers have commenced 

 to form in the mouth or throat, dust them twice a day with pow- 

 dered chlorate of potash. Give the apparently well fowls the 

 charcoal and the Douglass mixture until the disease disappears 

 from the place. 



After the roup reaches the third stage, the fowl is not worth 

 fussing over ; kill it and bury or burn the whole carcass. 



Use care in handling roupy fowls ; if any of the discharge 

 comes in contact with the eye, or with a cut or scratch on the 

 hands, it will produce serious inflammation. 



Gapes in chicks are caused by the presence of minute 

 worms in the windpipe; when these worms are present in great 

 numbers they completely fill the windpipe and (he chick dies of 

 suffocation. The name of the disease sufficiently describes the 

 symptoms. It occurs most frequently during the summer 

 months, and among chicks that are kept in filthy coops and 

 runs, fed on sour, sloppy, unwholesome food, and allowed ac- 

 cess to impure, stagnant water. Fresh, wholesome, cooked food 



