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soft food, one teaspoonful of oil to every two quarts of corn 

 meal. While treating do not give much water to drink. 



3. Canker or Ulcerated Mouth. 



Causes. — Canker is caused by filthy quarters and musty 

 or unwholesome food. 



Symptoms. — It makes its appearance as running sores 

 on the head, in the 

 mouth or throat accom- 

 panied by a watery dis- 

 charge from the eyes. 



Treatment. — T a k e 

 warm water and a little 

 salt and wash the head 

 and eyes, also swab out 

 the throat and mouth. 

 Remove ulcers with a 

 quill and apply powdered 

 borax to the places left 

 bare. Repeat this treat- 

 ment twice a day and a 

 cure will be effected. 



4. Crop Bound. 



Fig. 111. A Pair of Orphingtons — a Splen- 

 did Utility Fowl. 



This is impaction of 

 the food in the crop. 



Causes. — Eating indigestible food or some foreign sub- 

 stance — bone, dry grass — that may obstruct the passage or 

 eating a very large quantity of grain may cause it. 



Symptoms. — The mass of food may be felt easily. 



Treatment. — The best treatment for crop bound is castor 

 oil. Give the fowl two teaspoonfuls in one dose. If this 

 does not clear it in 48 hours it may be necessary to open the 

 crop and remove the contents. 



Carefully remove the feathers from a greater portion of 

 the crop and chill the skin with a piece of ice or ice-cold 

 water. Make an incision in the skin from two to three 

 inches in length, according to the size of the bird, near the 

 top. Draw the skin back and make another opening in the 

 crop so that the two openings do not come opposite each 

 other, as this helps healing after the operation. Remove 



