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of a wheat grain, pushed down the throat, often gives 
good results. One-third ounce of salicylic acid should 
be added to each quart of the fowls’ drinking water. 
By the fumigation treatment, 
the sick birds are shut in a 
large dry goods box, in which 
is burned a mixture of equal 
parts of turpentine, sulphur 
and pine tar. After a quarter 
of an hour, or as soon as the 
fowls begin to be overcome by 
the fumes, take them into the 
open air. 
FEATHER-EATING is more an 
idle, vicious habit than a dis- 
ease, superinduced by idleness 
and close confinement, OF POS- the trachea pinned open. A, the 
sibly a craving for animal food. fir"daters “Ne tkacuen from ‘the 
Separate the offending bird, asus; d,the cwnecks N° SPE 
or the featherseating will become general. Rub the 
feathers uear the picked places with powdered aloes 
mixed with lard. 
DrarrHea.—Dust a little powdered chalk and cay- 
enne pepper into boiled milk, feed on soft food, and 
withhold vegetables for a few days. 
Whenever a fowl hangs its wings, and looks drooping, 
let it be seen to at once, whether it appears purged, and 
if so, give immediately, in a teaspoonful of warm water, 
a teaspoonful of strong brandy or whisky saturated with 
camphor. Repeat this the next morning, and in most 
cases the disease will be checked ; care being, of course, 
taken to give the invalid warmth and good shelter. 
The best food is warm barley meal, or rice meal mixed 
with lime water. If these measures do not promptly 
check the discharge, give the following powder, mixed 
up with a little meal: Take powdered chalk, 5 grains; 
FIG. 128. CHICK WITH GAPES, 
