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being cut about the joint, as the tendons are apt to get 

 severed. When the same disease attacks the thigh joint 

 it is not so easily cured, but in my experience it seldom 

 does so, as compared to the wing. The old writers divided 

 this disease into the flesh wen and the bone wen, but the 

 one is only an intensified form of the other. If taken in 

 time, this disease may generally be cured by the method 

 stated. 



Conclusion. 



There are certain strains of pigeons among all the high- 

 class varieties which have become more healthy than others, 

 on account of systematic weeding out of all diseased birds. 

 The plan I adopt, and which I recommend to others, is to kill 

 off or discard all birds that become affected with serious 

 hereditary ailments, such as wing disease. 



