38 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GEORGIA. 



" Symptoms. A listless, quiet mien ; a disposition to remain on 

 the roost in the day-time ; face and comb quite red, and a puff or 

 fullness of the face under the eye. The second day a white froth 

 is discerned in the corner of the eye. A decided loss of appetite is 

 also noticeable. 



" Treatment. If noticed, and the disease taken in hand before 

 the appearance of the froth in the eye, it will usually only be nec- 

 essary to wash the head and beak clean, and blow down through the 

 nose into the throat either with the mouth, or by means of a rubber 

 nipple, thus clearing the tear tube, and bathe the head and wash the 

 throat with a solution of carbolic acid one part acid to ten parts 

 water. The birds should be kept in a quiet place and allowed noth- 

 ing but water. 



" The third day they will regain their appetites and all is over. 

 Many of them have this distemper so lightly as not to be noticed. 

 In aggravated cases, when the eyes and face are much swollen, the 

 head and throat should be thoroughly steamed by the use of a large 

 sponge and hot water. The tear tube should be cleared (as before 

 explained), a dessert spoonful of castor oil given, and the bathing 

 of the face and throat with the solution of carbolic acid continued 

 at short intervals. This distemper may be called a cold, or the in- 

 cipient stages of the roup. We will not quarrel about names, but 

 simply say that in our opinion it is no more roup than a cold is 

 measles. There is no offensive smell to the breath as in roup, but, 

 if neglected, it will excite roup. We have not the slightest doubt 

 of this ; in fact know it to be the case, and the breeder has the 

 choice of adopting the adage, ' a stitch in time eaves nine,' and at- 

 tending to this mild, easily managed distemper, or to neglect it and 

 have that scourge of a poultry house, ' the roup,' to contend with. 5 ' 

 In regard to 



EOUP 



The same author says : " When roup appears, our advice is to 

 kill the affected one and turn our attention at once to the flock, 

 giving sulphur in the ratio of a tablespoonf ul to fifteen fowls every 

 other day for a week, feeding tincture of iron, eight drops to a hen 

 every day in their soft food, which will pay to be boiled rice, until 

 treatment is over. With this be sure that the ventilation is com- 

 plete and free from direct draughts upon the fowls. For the ben- 

 efit of those who wish to cure the disease, we give the following 

 symptoms and our method of treatment : 



