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contagion, to save it from being picked by the well ones, 

 and to apply remedies. Oftentimes cures can be effected 

 by placing sick hens in the sun, or near a stove in the 

 house, for heat seems to be one of the sovereign reme- 

 dies in the gallinaceous kingdom. If more than this is 

 necessary, there is no other way than either to kill the 

 fowl forthwith, or to look for its S3'mptoms in some book 

 upon the subject, and apply the remedies there indicated. 



