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night and day and exercise in a room where the mercury was 

 at 70 degrees, and then sleep in a room where it fell below zero. 

 Such extremes would affect the hardiest constitution. Colds 

 would not be nearly so common if poultry keepers would open the 

 windows in their houses every day in winter when the sun shines, 

 and keep them open from 1 1 o'clock in the morning until four in 

 the afternoon. 



The symptoms of a cold are sneezing, bubbling at the nose, 

 watery eye and perhaps diarrhoea. Colds generally cure them- 

 selves without any especial treatment, but there is always a pos- 

 sibility that colds if neglected may run into something serious. 

 Ten drops of aconite in two quarts of drinking water is a simple 

 and good remedy when administered in season. For mature birds 

 a one-grain quinine pill or one Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet, 

 given each night for two or three nights, will generally do the 

 business. The tablet should be greased, so that it will slip down 

 easily. Here is a home-made pill that is effective. Take equal 

 parts cayenne pepper, sulphate of quinine and sulphate of iron 

 mix together with extract gentian ; mould into pellets about the 

 size of a pea, and give one every 24 hours. (This is not a bad 

 remedy for human beings, doubling or trebling the dose.) 

 Bronchitis is a bad cold accompanied by coughing or rattling in 

 the throat. The treatment is the same as for a common cold. 



THE DREAD SCOURGE ROUP. 



Roup is now believed to be a bacterial disease that is, dissem- 

 inated by means of germs and not as was formerly thought the 

 result of a neglected cold. If this is so, roup can only be intro- 

 duced from outside; it cannot originate within. But it can be 

 introduced in many ways : by means of a bird bought of a careless 

 or irresponsible breeder, by means of excrement brought on the 

 feet, by means of germs or spores floating in the air. The seeds 

 of roup will remain for years, so that it is never safe to buy an old 

 hen house, unless you are absolutely sure the disease has never 

 been within its walls. Catarrh is often mistaken for roup, but in 

 catarrh the peculiar smell that goes with roup is not present. 



Each new case as it comes up should be isolated. Roup may 

 be discovered in two ways. A roupy bird generally sleeps with 

 her head under her wing, and by going through the pen at night 

 with a lantern one may easily find her. The other way in which 



