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for summer, costing three dollars each. They are arranged 

 so two men can move them to any desired location. 



Mr. CusHMAN. I think that is a good plan. Each man 

 has to have a little different arrangement. I do not believe 

 in advising ever}'' one to do the same thing. There is a 

 great deal to do, and people who think they can go into it 

 without studying it at all are going to make mistakes with 

 the competition we have now. Out west they are buying 

 pure-bred poultry, raising stock from it and shipping it east 

 and the farmers here who are not up to date are getting as 

 low prices for what they raise here as that raised on cheap 

 grain in the west. How can they keep it up ? We can get 

 the gilt-edge prices only by having something better than 

 the western product, b}^ having the eggs turned into Boston 

 market twelve hours old, as Mr. Collingwood said in regard 

 to strawberries. 



Mr. Griffin (of Brockton). I have had several people 

 come to me and ask my advice about roup, and I always 

 tell them I think it is cheaper to dispose of the fowl. They 

 will say the fowls cost them a big price. I would like to 

 know if your advice would be to kill these fowls. 



Mr. CusHMAN. When I bred white Leghorns and got 

 fifteen dollars for some of them, I hated to do it. A little 

 trouble along the roup line may be cured, but if it hangs 

 along it will go all through the fowl and injure it so that it 

 will never be as good again. 



Mr. Griffin. What would be the best cure? 



Mr. CusHMAN. The first thing I would disinfect the 

 nostrils with some solution like carbolic acid and water or 

 carbolic acid and sweet oil to kill the germs ; then treat 

 with something that is astringent, to check the discharge 

 and enable the fowl to get over the cold. A good many 

 use quinine pills, the same as for themselves, but do not 

 give as large a dose. 



It is hard work to overfeed a Leghorn at liberty. I have 

 had one or two hundred in the winter taken with the roup. 

 I do not want any more. By careful prevention you can 

 get along all right with most anything. After you have 

 once got the roup into a flock, it is likely to go through 

 them all. If every one would take away and kill and bury 



