A POULTRY COMPENDIUM. 47 



DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. 



Print in large letters and nail up in a conspicuous 

 place in your poultry-house "AN OUNCE OF PRE- 

 VENTION IS WORTH A TON OF CURE." We 

 have taken the liberty to alter the familiar aphorism by 

 substituting the word "ton" for "pound," the latter word 

 not giving emphasis enough. Diseases, even of fowls, 

 can sometimes be cured, but it is cheaper, and more 

 satisfactory, to prevent them. Under your motto print 

 the following maxims : 



1. Don't overcrowd your hen-house. 



2. Keep your buildings well ventilated. 



3. Keep everything clean. 



4. Whitewash is cheaper than cholera, and fumigation 

 more profitable than lice. 



5. Sunlight is as necessary as corn. 



6. Don't underfeed or overfeed, and don't forget 

 that' fresh water is abundant and cheap. 



But even when all precautions are taken to ward off 

 disease, it will sometimes appear. "Accidents will happen 

 in the best regulated families." It becomes necessary 

 therefore to know something about the diseases to which 

 poultry is subject and the remedies by means of which 

 they may be conquered. . 



Roup — Symptoms. A catarrh or cold in the head ; 

 dry cough and dull wheezing ; much fever, . the fowl 

 drinking eagerly ; comb and wattles either pale or dark 

 colored ; yellowish discharge, thin and watery at first, but 

 growing thicker and thicker, from throat, nostrils and 

 eyes ; eyes and face sometimes greatly swollen ; pustules 

 about the head and in the gullet which discharge a 



