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for chickens ; but if the parts should CANKER, as it 

 is styled, wash with stale urine, or alum and water, 

 or any spirit and water ; or make an unguent of 

 burnt alum and honey ; or mix twenty grains of red 

 precipitate with half an ounce of honey ; or dissolve 

 five grains of white vitriol in half a table-spoonful 

 of vinegar, and mix with the above, alum and 

 honey. Pigeons are liable to several peculiar in- 

 ternal complaints of weakness, for which it is pro- 

 bable that prevention, or subsequent care, are the 

 only remedies. A variety of remedies are offered 

 for vermin in pigeons, such as stavesacre, tobacco, 

 snuff, and similar articles, but the only effectual one 



is Strict CLEANLINESS. 



Croppers, particularly, are apt to GORGE them- 

 selves, and all young pigeons are occasionally sub- 

 ject to have the crop obstructed by receiving too 

 great a quantity of food, and too speedily, for di- 

 gestion. The first, or old pigeons in this state, 

 may be treated as already directed for fowls. The 

 crops of the squabs being gently stroked upwards 

 with the fingers, will generally be cleared a bean at 

 a time ; should this method fail, which will seldom 

 happen, the usual incision may be made. The VER- 

 TIGO, MEGRIM, or GIDDINESS in pigeons, arises pro- 

 bably from some error of diet or keeping, and I 

 know of no remedy, but confinement, with room for 

 exercise, fine water being allowed, with chalk and 

 saffron infused. For SCOURING, forge-water, or rust 

 of iron in pellets of dough ; afterwards, sulphur in 

 the water. In ERUPTIONS, sulphurated water. If 

 any external application be necessary, the unguents 



