DISEASES OF POULTRY. 



thf size of a hazelnut, and give one three times a 

 liness is no less necessary than warmth, and it will sometimes 

 be desirable to bathe the eyes and nostrils with warm milk and 

 water, or suds, as convenient. 



With regard to this disease, Mr. Giles says : 

 " My method with the roup, or swelled head, which, by the 

 way, is caused by a cold, is as follows : As soon as discovered, 

 if in warm weather, remove the infected ones to some well 

 ventilated apartment, or yard ; if in winter, to some warm 

 place ; then give a dessert spoonful of castor-oil ; wash their 

 heads with warm castile soap-suds, and let them remain until 

 next morning fasting. Scald for them Indian meal, adding 

 two and a half ounces of epsom salts for ten hens, or in pro- 

 portion for a lesser or larger number ; give it warm, and 

 repeat the dose in a day or two, if they do not recover." 



Mr. Giles is excellent authority, having had " more than 

 thirty years' practice among the feathered tribes," and being 

 now the owner of one of the most extensive collections of pure- 

 blooded fowls in this or any other country. 



IV. CONSUMPTION. 



W T e should be apt to imagine from the warm clothing of 

 feathers with which fowls are provided, that they would be 

 exempt from colds and consumption. But all the symp- 

 toms of cold, such as hoarseness, sneezing, &c., are readily 

 observed. That they should be susceptible to such influences 

 appears reasonable, when the peculiar structure already adverted 

 to is remembered. The air taken into the lungs of fowls is 

 not stopped there, but by means of air-cells reaches every 

 part of the body pervading the interior of the bones. Their 

 great susceptibility, also, is connected with the fact that they 

 are originally tropical animals. They are also affected, more 

 or less, by the circumstances in which they are placed, spend- 



