318 DOMESTIC FOWLS. 



feathers; for when young, such a cold bath is apt to numb and 

 injure them. 



The diseases to which chickens are liable are the chip, pip, and 

 roup. When suffering from the chip, the little things sit moping 

 and chipping in corners, and seem to be perishing with cold ; warmth, 

 and some mustard or pepper put into the water are the best, and in 

 fact the only, remedies. The pip is a white skin growing upon the 

 tip of the tongue ; it may be cured by scratching the skin off with 

 the nail, and rubbing the place with salt. The roup is another 

 disorder which requires warmth to counteract its effects; the bird's 

 nostrils should be washed out with warm water, and some pills, com- 

 posed of butter and chopped rue leaves, administered every day. 

 Full-grown fowls are sometimes attacked by this disease, and it not 

 unfrequently proves fatal. 



