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Thus, out of ',i'2 chickt'us dosed willi Jiiili an unuiL- 

 ^aboul 15'% about J lablespoonful, about - dessert- 

 spoonsful, about 4 teaspooiisful) of spirits of turpeu- 

 tine, one died. In another case dosed with 25*='', in still 

 another dosed with 30'='= (about 1 ounce, or 2 table- 

 spoonsful) of tuipeiitine the ;!iiiinals were very sick, 

 but recovered. 



It will be well, therefore, to make half an ounce 

 (about 15'*^, or 1 tablespoon ful) the maximum dose. 

 As a safe rule, we can adopt 1 teaspoonful 

 (about 4'"=, about or:e-eiirhth on an ounce) to 3 tea- 

 spoonsliil lainiui 1:^ ', about llircc-eiulillis of an ounce) 

 as the dose for chickens, the size of the dose being de- 

 termined b}' the size of the chicken. 



It will be noticed that the above experiments were 

 made to determine how much turpentine could be 

 safely given to chickens. As there was no outbreak 

 of tapeworm disease among tbe fowls used in the ex- 

 periment, no observations could be made on the effects 

 of the medicine up(»n the taj)eworms which occur in 

 chickens. Turpentine is, however, one of the recog- 

 nized remedies against tapeworms. 



Powered kamala. — M^gnin states that very j,"Ocd re- 

 sults followed the use of this drug, mixed with the 

 food, against tapeworms of pheasants. Hutchoon ad- 

 vises for ostrich chicks one month old 1 draclim, two. 

 months old V/z drachms, three to four months old 2 

 (Iraclims, eighteen months old 1 ounce, a full-grown 

 ostrich 2 drahms more. It does not require to be 

 mixed with a purgative. Powered kamala may be 

 given mixed in a little flour and water. 



Pumpkin seeds. — These, according to Ztirn, are not 

 well borne by turkeys and not always by (thickens, but 

 it would be well to experiment further with them. 



