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features are a high state of fever, with an o/ensive smelling 

 discharge from nostrils or eyes, or both, or sometimes hanging 

 about in froth, but more often tending, after a few days, to 

 become thick Any fowl attacked should be at once 

 secluded, and everything it has used be disinfected with car- 

 bolic acid for the sake of the rest. The fowl must be kept in 

 a moderately warm and dry place, and given at first half a 

 tea-spoonful of Epsom salts, washing the head and organs 

 affected with Labarraque's solution of chlorinated soda, diluted 

 with twice its bulk of water, twice or thrice a day all through 

 the attack. The food should be slightly seasoned with cayenne. 

 A few hours after the oil, give a copaiba capsule, and continue 

 these every 'twelve hours till the discharge yields, giving a 

 second dose of salts on the third day. After recovery the 

 fowl should be quarantined for a few days, and be given a last 

 wash with the chlorinated soda before being returned to its com- 

 panions. If copaiba capsules cannot be readily procured, 

 nearly all the advertised "roup pills" are more or less 

 beneficial, or the following is a good prescription : Cayenne 

 pepper, 20 grains ; copper sulphate, 10 grains ; copaiba, 1 

 fluid drachm. To be made into twenty pills, one to be given 

 morning and evening. 



Scaly Legs. This unsightly incrustation of the shanks is 

 chiefly confined to feather-legged breeds, and is due to a small 

 insect It can be cured by scrubbing every morning with 

 strong carbolic soap, and anointing at night with sulphur 

 ointment, or Foster's ointment sold for the purpose. 



Soft Eggs are generally caused by over-feeding the hens, and 

 the remedy is then self-evident. It may, however, occur from 

 arant of lime, which must of course be supplied, the best form 

 being calcined and pounded oyster-shells. Sometimes it is 

 occasioned by fright, from being driven about, but in that case 

 will right itself in a day or two, with quiet and rest. If perfect 

 eggs are habitually dropped on the ground, the proprietor 

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