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About a week afterward I was brushing the dry scale 
from face and comb, and in the process I lifted entire 
the cuticle and feathers from head and neck for three 
inches down, which demonstrated the power of the oil 
as a counter-irritant, and the necessity of care in its use. 
‘These two medicines are all I have used since for distem- 
per or roup, and so successful have I been that I think 
‘it safe to say I have not lost five birds by roup in the past 
two years. 
Chicken-pox—warty blotches of comb and throat—can 
be treated with bromide, by giving three grains a day, 
and isolating the bird till the spots dry and cleave off, 
which will be ina week or ten days. The plan to remove 
those. caps is a very bad one, and only spreads the disease. 
Patience, giving time for the bromide to do its work, 
and the shedding of the dry scales, is all that is needed 
for a cure. 
CHICKEN OR FOWL CHOLERA. 
There is nothing more unsatisfactory than a sick 
chicken, or more difficult to treat, and we find that the. 
best writers upon poultry diseases insist much more 
upon prevention than upon cures. The term ‘‘chol- 
era” is applied to a disease which, though it varies 
in different parts of the country, is everywhere accom- 
panied by a violent diarrhea, and is rapidly fatal. In 
every such outbreak of disease among fowls, the first 
thing to be done is to separate the sick from the well, 
and at once give a change of food, which should be of 
the most nourishing character, and combined with some 
stimulant, such as Cayenne pepper, or a tonic, like 
iron. Modern writers upon poultry diseases are greatly 
in favor of iron in some form as a tonic. The old 
method of putting rusty nails in the drmking-water had 
