1128 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



until the chicks are old enough to swallow wheat and cracked 

 corn, milk, or plenty of pure water, perfect cleanliness about 

 the coops and run, and an occasional dash of pepper in the food 

 will prevent gapes, unless the disease has been on the premises 

 before ; in that case give the Douglass mixture in the drink 

 twice or three times a week, and scatter air-slaked lime freely 

 about the places formerly used for the coop and runs. When 

 possible, keep the chicks on a fresh piece of ground some dis- 

 tance from the old runs. 



To cure gapes fumigate with carbolic acid ; it will cure when 

 the chick is apparently at its last gasp. Shut the afflicted 

 chicks in the upper half of a tolerably tight box, and put sev- 

 eral drops of the acid on a red hot shovel held in the lower half. 

 Keep them in the fumes a minute or so, but watch closely lest 

 they be suffocated. Instead of fumigating all at once, the 

 chicks may be treated one at a time by having some one hold 

 the hot shovel and drop on the acid while you hold the chick's 

 bill open over the fumes that rise. After fumigating, give each 

 chick two drops of the solution of carbolic acid and water. 

 When the acid is not at hand fumigate with sulphur ; and if 

 neither be available give each a pill of camphor gum half the 

 size of a small pea. 



Another cure, recommended by the Poultry World, is to 

 shut the chicks in a box having a cover made of thick muslin, 

 spread air-slaked lime on top of the cover and then strike or 

 jar so as to sift some of the lime down into the box ; the lime 

 causes the chicks to sneeze and throw up the worms. Chicks 

 that have died of the gapes should be burned or buried deep, 

 with plenty of quick-lime. 



Chills among young chickens, ducks, and turkeys are caused 

 by a thorough drenching with cold rain or dew. When the 

 " patients " are discovered before life is quite extinct, warm 

 them thoroughly by dipping all but the head in quite warm 

 water for a few minutes ; then, as soon as they are able to 

 swallow, give a teaspoonful of quite strong pepper tea and put in 

 a warm place until they are quite dry and lively. In extreme 

 cases give a teaspoonful of whisky instead of the pepper tea. 



