90 DISEASES. 



This is very cleansiag, aud a few drops inter- 

 nally are useful in removing the mucus which 

 collects in the throat. 



The disease runs its course rapidly. If your 

 bird is not better in a week, it will be dead. 

 Whole yards are often depopulated by the ravages 

 of this scourge; single cases occur which are over- 

 looked, and then the disease becomes universal. 



Some think roup merely a neglected cold ; but 

 my opinion is, that it attacks the birds at once, 

 and is contagious. 



The bill qf the first sufferer has perhaps con- 

 taminated the water-dish, and such is the virulence 

 of the malady, that it quickly spreads through 

 the whole stock, and is indeed the Poultry plague. 



Even when the fowl appears to have recovered, 

 it must undergo a long and strict quarantine 

 before it is restored to the bosom of its family. 



I do not advise all this care to be bestowed on 

 any but valuable fowls ; if the more worthless are 

 attacked, the sooner they are put out of pain, 

 and hidden from sight, the better, so wretched 

 an appearance does a sickly fowl present. 



Gapes, or inflammation of the trachea, is a 



