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fully, and a perfect euro efrected in two or tlnee hours where the chicken 

 was too far gone to eat any of the articles suj;-<::ested as remedies. Take 

 the chicken in yonr hand, niicii its inonlii, and press duwii tin' point of the 

 tonj^ne, and the orili(!(' or entrance t<t the trachea is at once seen; now take 

 a horse hair eiu^ht or ten inches long', dt>ul)le it, and insert it into th(? wind- 

 pipe as far as it will go; twist the hair between yt»ur thuinh and ling(>r, 

 and from one to half a dozen small worms will adhere to it, which are 

 easily drawn out. 'J'his operation may he rcjicatcd nniil every worm is 

 removed, and the chicken will in a few Inuirs L)e perfectly restored to 

 health." 



This remedy, although not referred to in the last discussion, has been 

 spoken of in some of our meetings, and the Kev. Mr. ^V(avcr said he had 

 tried the horse hair remedy with success. 



Mr. T A. Goodwill, Indianapolis, gives a better plan than all that have 

 been devised for curing the disease. He would prevent it. lie writes as 

 follows: 



" In the reports of the Club I see you have discussed gapes in chickens. 

 Not having seen a case of gapes for nearly ten years, I had suii|)osed {hvui 

 about e.xtinct. I have nothing to say against the learned disquisition as to 

 the origin of the worm which causes tiie gaping. Whether it ever was a 

 louse or not I cannot say, nor is it material. Ten years ago. when Shang- 

 haes were young, I tested an ' infallible cure.' Take a grain of black pep- 

 per, put it in tiie end of a goose quill, so cut as to receive about one-third 

 the grain, hold the chicken's legs between your knees, open the mouth 

 gently with the left hand, and thrust the (juill, loaded with the grain afore- 

 said, about four inches down its throat; withdraw- the quill, and the chicken 

 never gapes but once more. It kills the worm nineteen times out of twenty, 

 and the chicken about nine times c)ut of ten; but I never discovered that 

 it pays. In short, I long since concluded thai in a yard infested with 

 gajtes, raising chickens is unprofitable. .Some one said new yards are less 

 afl'ected with gapes than old ones, and thereby hangs the prevention. To 

 cure gapes is impossible, to ])revent them is easy. You want no sulphur, 

 no grease, no chives, no onions. It consists simply in giving the chickens 

 access to plowed ground. You never see gapes in the yard oi' a new settler, 

 around the cabin in the corn field. CJapes are peculiar to a high state of 

 civilization and refinement, which deprives the young one of its appropriate' 

 food. You want no coo{)s with |)Iank bottoms to keep their little feet dry. 

 Put the hen in a movable coop in your garden, and while the young ones 

 ■will deslro}' a thousand insects which would injure yoin- garden, tliey will 

 never have the gapes. I dont't pretend to give the philosophy, I onl}' state 

 the fact, and 1 wish to state it >.7ro/j [/—chickens having con.stant access to 

 plowed ground never have gapes. 



Poultry Raisi.ng. 



Mr. X. II. .Merwin, Kockport, Ohio, wants to know if there are any ecca- 

 lobions in practical operation in this country. 



So far as mendjers of the Olub present are iidormerl, (he answer is that 

 all attempts to produce chickens in this country out of the natural order, 

 have proved impracticable. 



