298 POULTRY BREEDING 
squab broilers in New Jersey that White Leghorns make 
the most desirable of this size. At the time they are to 
be sold they are plump and compact in body and delici- 
ously tender and palatable. These little broilers sell in 
New York at a price which nets the breeder from $1.25 
a pair, for the earliest ones in the spring, down to 70 
cents per pair for the last ones sold. The business is 
growing and extending to the cities farther west. Squab 
broilers are fed largely on a mash mixed with milk, which 
gives their flesh a peculiarly delicious flavor, and caterers 
who have a high-class patronage take them quickly when 
offered. 
TAPEWORMS, DESTROYING.—In Europe consid- 
erable loss is experienced in poultry through the ravages 
of tapeworms. In this country this form of parasitic 
affliction has been comparatively rare until quite lately 
when several outbreaks have been reported. The Mary- 
land station reports that almost invariably these worms 
were expelled and the fowl cured by adiministering a 
stiff purgative dose of Epsom salts following this with 
two teaspoonfuls of turpentine introduced into the crop 
through a rubber tube. (See Epsom Salts, Purgative 
Dose.) 
Fowls afflicted with tapeworms become very much 
emaciated and the droppings usually contain considerable 
quantities of yellow mucus. In such droppings may be 
found the segments of the tapeworms that have passed 
from the intestines. During the last stages the birds be- 
come dull and listless. At first the appetite of the bird 
is in no way disturbed but when the disease reaches the 
stage of listlesness the appetite fails and the victims show 
a tendency to huddle. Most cases in Maryland exhibited 
a marked diarrhoea. On several occasions the birds 
