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day for grown chicks or turkey, less to the smaller fry. The 

 birds that are well enough to eat should have sufficient powdered 

 charcoal in their soft feed every other day to color it slightly, 

 and for every twenty fowls five drops of carbolic acid in the hot 

 water with which the feed is moistened. 



As a preventive, use a few drops of camphor in the drinking 

 water. 



ROUP. The first symptoms are those of a cold in the head. 

 Later on the watery discharge from the nostrils and eyes 

 thickens and fills the nasal cavities and throat, the head swelh 

 and the eyes ciose ap and bulge out. The odor from affected 

 fowls is very offensive. It is contagious by diffusion in the air 

 and by contact with the exudations from sick fowls. A good dis- 

 infectant should be used. 



For the first stages spray the affected flock while on the 

 roost or in the coop with a mixture of two tablespoonfuls of 

 carbolic acid and a piece of fine salt as big as a walnut in a 

 pint of water. Repeat two or three times a week. Or, if a dry 

 powder is preferred, mix equal parts of sulphur, alum and 

 magnesia and dust this in their nostrils, eyes and throat with a 

 small powder gun. The nasal cavities should be kept open by 

 injecting with a glass syringe or sewing machine oil -can a drop 

 or two of crude petroleum. A little should be introduced also 

 through the slit in the roof of the mouth. Give sick birds a 

 dessertspoonful of castor oil two nights in succession, and feed 

 soft food of bran and corn meal seasoned with red pepper and 

 powdered charcoal. A physician advises the following treat- 

 ment : hydrastin, 10 grains ; sulph. quinine, 10 grains ; capsi 

 cum, 20 grains. Mixed in a mass with balsam copaiba and 

 made into twenty pills ; give one pill morning and night ; keep 

 the bird warm and inject a saturated solution of chlorate potash 

 in nostrils and about 20 drops down the throat. An excellent 

 preventive of colds and roup is permanganate of potash Dis- 

 solve an ounce in a quart of water. During spring and fall (some 

 poultrymen use it daily the year round) every morning add a 

 quantity (one or more teaspoonfuls) to the drinking water to give 

 it a wine color 



Homeopathic Aconite, 3, in first stages ; mercurius vivus, 

 6, when the discharge becomes thick: and spongia, 15, when 

 there is a rattling and croupy condition in the throat. 



