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and then insert the head into the solution, comb down, so 

 the medicated water may enter the clift in the palate and go 

 out at each nostril and into the throat. Each should be 

 separately treated. 



Kerosene injected into the nostrils is good ; also cam- 

 phorated sweet oil. Ten drops of coal oil or kerosene added 

 to a pint of water for a flock of twenty fowls will often 

 effect a cure. When this remedy is applied, do not attempt 

 to prepare one of the flock for table use for three or four 

 weeks thereafter, as the entire carcass will be tainted with 

 coal oil. 



Important. — In treating roup, be careful to remove the 

 affected fowl from those apparently healthy, and thoroughly 

 disinfect the fowls' quarters. Watch the flock carefully and 

 at once isolate any that may show signs of the disease. 

 Remove also any discharge from the nostrils that may col- 

 lect on the feathers under the wings or on the breast. Be 

 sure and protect the sick fowls from all drafts and feed 

 easily digested food. When the fov/ls look stupid and 

 droopy, feathers rough and no appetite, reduce their food 

 to even fasting. 



3. Inflammation of the Windpipe. 



Causes. — It is usually the result of exposure. 



Symptoms. — The symptoms are similar to an ordinary 

 cold. The breathing, of course, is interferred with and there 

 is in some instances a sort of wheezing and rattling in the 

 throat. Open the fowl's mouth wide and examine the throat 

 and windpipe. It is found to be quite red and there may 

 also be some phlegm present in the passage. 



The inflammation may extend far down the pipe and 

 affect the branch tubes leading to the lungs, thus constitut- 

 ing a case of bronchitis, or the upper part only may be af- 

 fected, being a case of laryngitis. 



Treatment. — Treatment in both cases is practically the 

 same. In mild cases treat as a common cold. Should the 

 inflammation become severe it may be necrssary to make 

 the treatment somewhat special. 



Procure a box, say 2 ft.x3 ft., and sufficiently high to 

 allow the patient to stand in it. Place a quart of bran in a 

 saucepan and pour upon it a quart of boiling water and 



