DISEASES OF POULTRY. 49 
charged with air, and so much so that the windpipe 
severed and tied, and the wing sawn off, it will admit 
air enough to sustain life for some time. 
Distemper, which seems.to be an acclimated disease, 
yet if neglected often results in roup, is easily detected 
by a puffed face, deep scarlet in color, and in two or three 
days discharges from the nostrils appear. In this disease 
the membrane of the air-passages, tear-tube and throat 
is inflamed; and when so much so as to close the tear- 
tube, the discharges become acrid, and roup is the result. 
To prevent this, it becomes necessary to check these mu- 
cus-discharges. The use of kerosene is a handy and sure 
eure. By holding the fowl so it cannot swallow, and 
filling the throat with the oil, holding long enough to 
have the oil thoroughly saturate the throat, then allow- 
ing the same to run ont of the mouth, and by washing 
the nostrils out, and injecting afew drops into each nasal 
passage, the effect is magical; and if attended to during 
the first two daysof the distemper, one application gen- 
erally proves sufficient. So safe and sure is this remedy 
that I have not used any other for the past two years. It 
checks at once the unnatural discharges. The breathing 
of kerosene for the twenty-four hours seems to have a 
most marvelous effect, and restoration to health is the 
result. By neglect we often have an attack of ‘ roup,” 
which is apparent inafetid breath, swollen head, and in- 
flamed face, a throat and mouth filled with canker. No 
matter what the cause that has brought this state of 
things to your flock,—be it bad ventilation, filthy quar- 
ters, unclean water-vessels, or neglect to remove roupy 
specimens till by the taint of the water by drinking in 
the same vessel the whole flock is effected ,—it is safe, when 
a part of the fowlsare so affected, to reason that the en- 
tire flock is in a measure poisoned in blood, and means 
should be taken to prevent its spreading. Ifwe in such 
a case put in the water-vessel bromide of potassium to 
