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nail laths, sufficiently wide apart to permit the chickens to pass 

 through comfortably. This gives a dry, comfortable house, 

 which, with care, may be made to last a number of years. 

 These coops should not be placed very near each other, as 

 the chickens are apt to wander into other houses than their 

 own, when the hen will often injure them seriously for the 

 intrusion. To place a number of these coops of chickens in the 

 kitchen garden is one of the best methods of reducing those 

 pests, the striped cucumber beetle, cut worm, and potato beetle. 

 Before closing this paper, it is but proper that some men- 

 tion should be made of the diseases of poultry. The most 

 common are the pip, roup, diarrha3a, and gapes. The pip 

 is mostly confined to young fowls. The symptoms are " a 

 thickening of the membrane of the tongTie, especially towards 

 the tip ; " this soon becomes sufficiently great to obstruct the 

 breathing of the fowl so far as to cause gasping, and the beak is 

 held open to assist breathing ; the chicken then soon pines 

 away in solitude. This disease is caused by feeding upon hot 

 food, and drinking impure water. Generally, if the end of the 

 tongue is cut off, and a supply of pure water is kept by the 

 fowl, a cure will be effected ; in obstinate cases the bird had 

 better be killed. The symptoms of the roup are similar to the 

 glanders in horses ; " constant gaping, dimness of sight, lividity 

 of the eye-lids, and the total loss of sight, a discharge from the 

 nostrils, that gradually becomes purulent and fetid." For 

 treatment, place the fowl in a warm apartment and bathe the 

 mouth, eyes and nostrils with a weak solution of chloride of 

 lime and acetate of lead. The diarrhoea is caused by dampness 

 and improper food. In the treatment of this disease, the food 

 should be placed in a warm room, and some chalk and cayenne 

 pepper be given in its food. The treatment for the gapes is sim- 

 ilar to that for the pip, and the symptoms are nearly the same ; 

 it is caused by the presence of numerous parasitic worms in 

 the windpipe. These may be removed with a stiff feather. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of I. K. Fetch. 

 In presenting my blood stock of Golden Pencilled Hamburgs 

 for premium, I would respectfully submit the following state- 

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