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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 slighth', 

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

 water with which the feed is moistened. 



Homeopathic — Arsenicum, 6, or arsenicum iodatum. 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 waterj' discharge from the nostrils and eyes 

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

 and the eyes close up and bulge out. The odor from affected 

 fowls is very offensive. It is contagious by diff'usion in the air 

 and by contact with the exudations from sick fowls. To disinfect 

 houses and coops burn sulphur and carbolic acid in them after 

 turning the fowls out and keep closed for an hour or two. Pour 

 a gill of turpentine and a gill of carbolic acid over a peck of 

 lime and let it become slaked, then scatter freely over the 

 interior of houses and coops and about the 3'ards. 



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 : hydrostin, 10 grains ; sulph. quinine, 10 grains ; capsi- 

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

 :nade 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. 



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. 



Pip, so-called, is not a disease but only a symptom. The 



