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bing the mouth always take care to run the feather into 

 the slit in the roof. An ounce of this solution to a pint 

 of water makes an excellent remedy for common colds or 

 distemper in young chicks. 



Yet another remedy, claimed to be infallible, not only 

 for canker, but for its most virulent form — roup — is to 

 place the affected birds in a close room, then take a shovel- 

 ful of red-hot cinders and sprinkle on them a teaspoonful 

 of flour of sulphur ; let the bird breathe the sulphurous- 

 acid gas thus evolved for ten minutes. It will cause it to 

 sneeze, and if the case is far advanced a great quantity 

 of matter will be thrown up through the throat and nos- 

 trils, and an almost immediate cure will result. 



This remedy is also successfully employed for catarrh in 

 human beings, and for epizooty in horses, never failing of 

 a cure after four or five applications. 



All of these diseases we have named proceed directly 

 from exposure to cold, to rain, wdnd, and draughts; and, 

 knowing this, that ''ounce of prevention " which " is worth 

 a pound of cure" is easily obtained, as we have already 

 pointed out, in the arrangement of our hen-houses. 



As we have said, all these diseases are often carelessly 

 classed, by those who are unobservant, as "sore-head;" 

 nine times out of ten, if you ask a Florida-raised neighbor 

 who has sick chickens, "What is the matter with them?" 

 he will answer, "Oh, sore-head, of course!" 



There is one distinct disease that deserves the name, 

 since a sore head is its outward effect. But this trouble, 

 popularly called in the South sore-head, or warts, is really 

 nothing more nor less than genuine 



ERYSIPELAS. 



It is not often seen in the poultry-yards of the North, 

 though when it does appear it is almost invariably toward 



