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the feather. "We have tried this plan, but never found any worms. 

 Our plan is, (and we have never yet had a chicken die with the gapes,) 

 to have mother and chicks comfortably housed at sundown keep 

 their drinking water in shallow iron vessels, and give them once a 

 day a little ground Cayenne pepper mixed with corn meal. In the 

 morning, they are permitted to run at large as early as their inclina- 

 tion prompts them, Pa. Farm Journal. 



GAPES IN CHICKENS. I have lost a great many chickens by this 

 disease. I have tried all the remedies that have been published, and 

 killed more than I cured, and I am convinced that all you give the 

 chick will do no good. I have cut open the windpipes of more than 

 fifty, and find a small, red worm there, some half an inch long. Kow 

 all that is given to the chick, goes down the throat, and not where the 

 worm is. I have saved more by the following plan, than by any 

 other way: 



Take tobacco stems, and put them into a tin or iron vessel. Put in 

 a few shavings, and set them on fire, with the tobacco. Take the 

 chick and hold it over the smoke till it stops gaping. Take it away 

 two or three times a minute, to get breath. The smoke that is inhaled 

 in the windpipe, suffocates the worm, and causes the chick to sneeze 

 and cough it up. Repeat every two days. There is a black worm that 

 I sometimes find, which is sure to kill the chick. There is no remedy 

 for them. 



P. MELENDY. 



LICE ON CHICKENS. 



A little lamp oil, put on the heads and under the wings of 

 chickens, I have always found to be a certain remedy for lice. 

 Tobacco juice is also a good remedy. Lard rubbed on their 

 heads, and under their wings, is said to be a good remedy. 

 The above three articles are considered so effectual, that nothing 

 further need be said. The oil is the best, I think. 



CHICKENS RAISED WITHOUT A MOTHER. 



Various plans have been adopted to rear chickens without 

 the aid of hens, and with a good degree of success. A chick 

 that is taken from the hen as soon as hatched, or within twen- 

 ty-four hours thereafter, soon forgets her, and if comfortable 

 quarters are provided, it grows up merry and contented. "Arti- 

 ficial mothers," or brooders, are frequently made of sheep-skins, 

 with the wool down, under which the chicks run at night. 



I have often raised large numbers of chickens in an enclosure, 

 without any hens. My plan is to make a yard of boards, so 

 high that a chicken cannot fly over till about two or three weeks 



