214 POULTRT- CRAFT. 



Roup. The term is used to apply to a variety of diseases affecting the head and 

 throat. The present tendency is to limit the use of the word roup to diphtheria, or 

 diphtheritic roup, and to call ordinary roup not seriously affecting the throat, influenza. 

 Influenza can be treated as a cold. For diphtheria a number of different treatments have 

 been successful at one time, and failed at another. Whether or not a cure can be effected, 

 probably depends as much on the constitution and antecedents of the fowl as a treatment. 

 Most of the roup remedies advertised have been successfully used in many cases. Experi- 

 enced practical poultrymen do not doctor fowls which have diphtheria. They kill and bury, 

 or burn them. For those who wish to try to save their birds, the following remedies are 

 given : 



One ounce oil of sassafras, one ounce best Jamaica ginger, one ounce tincture of iron, 

 one ounce alcohol, a half-ounce prickly ash fluid extract, one-fourth ounce oil of anise. 

 Dose, fifteen drops to one teaspoonf ul to each gallon drinking water. 



The following treatment, suggested by A. V. Meersch, has been successfully used in 

 many cases : Clean out the pus, if in the mouth, with a little wooden spatula ; if you 

 make it bleed a little, don't be alarmed. When this is done, wash the mouth with cotton 

 wadding, attached to a little stick of wood, saturated in peroxide of hydrogen, then drop 

 a little aristol on each sore place ; repeat this operation morning and evening for three 

 days. 



Dr. H. A. Stevenson reports having both cured sick birds, and immunized others by 

 injecting antitoxine. 



Worms are properly parasites. Two kinds affect fowls. Round worms are quite 

 common ; tape worms rare. The presence of worms is not often detected except by 

 examination after death. If a bird dying is found to have had worms, give well members 

 of the flock turpentine in the soft food in proportion of two or three drops of turpentine 

 to each fowl. 



White Comb a scurfy condition of the comb, due to unsanitary surroundings; use an 

 ointment heaping teaspoon oleate of zinc to half-teacup of vaseline wash the comb 

 and head with carbolic soap and warm water before applying. 



Wind Puffs due to injury to lung tissue ; relieved by pricking, but not always 

 curable. 



314. Hospital and Medicine Chest. For the simple treatment, of 

 which the object is to check incipient, rather than cure established disease, 

 the poultryman should have an isolated building, small, but comfortable, and 

 should keep on hand a few of the remedies most efficacious in checking 

 common diseases. It is prompt work that counts. 



315. Parasites. 



Lice probably exist in small numbers wherever there are fowls ; but as long 

 as fowls are healthy and active cannot increase rapidly enough to seriously 

 annoy the birds. On sick and injured fowls, scaly legged fowls, sitting hens, 

 and very young chicks, they thrive when the general stock is comparatively 

 free from them. Frequently they come in in force on new fowls. It should 

 be an inviolable rule to treat new fowls thoroughly for lice before permitting 

 them to mingle with the flock, for the lice not only annoy fowls, they carry 

 the germs of infectious diseases from fowl to fowl. The most effective means 

 of ridding fowls of lice are given below, quoted from Wood. (See also 

 f 234 and 247) : 



