320 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
Pills. —Sulphate of copper, half grain ; cayenne pepper, 
one grain; hydrastine, half grain; copaiba, three drops; 
Venetian turpentine, quarter section. In pill night and 
morning. 
Lotion.—Sulphate of copper, quarter ounce, dissolved 
in a pint of rain water. To wash out the mouth and 
nostrils, if required. 
Cranup, though usually attributed to damp quarters, 
is mainly the result of too highly concentrated food, 
cvupled with too little exercise. Who ever saw chicks 
troubled with cramp when allowed to run out of doors, 
even in warm rain and dew, so long as they had plenty 
of grass and insects for dessert, and plenty of exercise 
to stimulate action in their digestive organs ? 
On the contrary, I was once called to a case where a 
man had just lost two hundred fine chicks from this 
trouble, and three hundred more a little younger were 
just coming down with it, and this in a building the 
floor of which was made of dry boards on which had 
been spread an inch of dry sand. A uniform tempera- 
ture of 70° had been preserved in the room night and 
day. These chicks had been carefully shielded from 
dampness. This was in March. 
I told him to clear away the snow from his building, 
in front, turn his chicks out when pleasant, give them 
plenty of boiled potatoes, chopped cabbage, feed on 
bread crumbs and baker’s dust mixed with sour milk, 
with a little animal food, and report the result to me. 
At the end of a fortnight a letter from him reported two 
of the cases dead and the rest as lively as crickets, every 
symptom of the disease having disappeared. 
BUMBLE-FOOT usually confines itself to the Asiatics 
and heavier breeds. When it first appears, the bird 
should be removed to dry quarters, with clean straw. 
The skin over the inflamed part should be shaved away 
a little, and caustic applied, which will nearly reduce 
