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Treatment, Press the nostrils until they are free from matter. 

 Bathe the head and throat twice each day with a solution of vinegar and 

 water in the proportion of one of vinegar to ten of water, or bathe in the 

 same way with Condy's fluid. Give a teaspoonful of castor-oil and 1 gr. 

 quinine pill night and morning. Birds affected should be isolated, and 

 kept in a warm, dry shed. 



The following are also good remedies : 



One-fourth teaspoonful of pepper, three-fourths ditto of milk : to be 

 given twice a day. 



A teaspoonful of sweet oil, one ditto of kerosene, four drops carbolic 

 acid ; mix, and inject a few drops into the nostrils. Apply with a small 

 oil-can or syringe, and put a little camphorated oil on affected parts. 



One tumblerful of vinegar, one-fourth ditto water, one teaspoonful 

 cayenne pepper : mix thoroughly, and give each bird one teaspoonful thref> 

 times a day. 



Put half a teaspoonful of Condy's crystals into a pint bottle of water ; 

 add one dessertspoonful of the mixture to two quarts of drinking-water. 



CHOLERA. 



This is a contagious and deadly form of diarrhoea. The affected fowls 

 mope about; the discharge from the bowels is of a watery nature and 

 particularly offensive. Remove all affected birds from those which ap- 

 pear healthy; scald out all the drinking-vessels, and give water with 

 a few drops of laudanum; give boiled rice and a sprinkling of powdered 

 chalk. If the case is very aggravated, give a pill made up as follows : 

 Opium, 2 gr. ; rhubarb, 3 gr. ; powdered chalk, 3 gr. Give this pill 

 once daily. 



CRAMP . 



This is brought about through the fowls being kept in a damp place. 

 The feet become contracted and the birds cannot stand. Remove to a 

 warm place, rub the legs with embrocation or turpentine, and give warm 

 food with cayenne pepper or powdered ginger. 



CROP -BOUND. 



This is a complaint that can easily be cured. It is caused very often 

 by birds being without green food for a length of time, then feeding off 

 long grass and hard corn, which causes the crop to swell. Get an 

 assistant to hold the bird on its back between his knees; the operator 

 will then hold the crop in the left hand, remove a few feathers, and with 

 a sharp knife make a cut about f in. long and remove the contents of the 

 crop with an egg-spoon ; put a couple of stitches in the crop, and place 

 the bird in a coop for two days, and give only soft food; it will gene- 

 rally be all right again in that time. 



GAPES. 



The symptom of this complaint is continual yawning. The disease is 

 generally confined to young chickens. It consists of small red worms in 

 the windpipe. Extract the worms by passing a wing-feather down the 

 throat, give a gentle turn two or three times, and then withdraw care- 



