POULTRY AND LARGE BIRDS. 387 
. Another excellent treatment is to strip a feather of the web, except 
more or less of the lip, according to the size of the patient, dip it in turpen- 
tine or kerosene oil, thrust it into the windpipe and turn it around several 
times before withdrawing it. Some of the worms will come out with it, 
others will be killed, and still others will be immediately coughed up, In 
whatever way they are removed, they should be caught on ‘a paper and 
burned. The same treatment in substance may be effected, with more cer- 
tainty of removing the worms, by stripping a 
feather as just directed (leaving about three-fourths 
of an inch of the web for a chick of two to six 
weeks), bending it down, without breaking or 
cracking it, just below the web that is left, so that 
it will make a smooth, sharp angle that can be 
easily thrust into the throat. The accompanying 
cut shows the feather before and after it is bent. 
While an assistant holds the patient, open the beak 
with the finger and thumb of one hand, take the 
quill in the other, dip it in a solution of three parts 
of spirits of turpentine to one of water, and thrust 
the sharp angle into the windpipe as far as it will 
go, twist it rapidly around, meanwhile drawing it 
cout. A worm will almost surely come away with 
it. Repeat the operation three or four times to 
effect a cure, burning the worms that are removed. 
Care must be taken to insure the insertion of the 
feather into the windpipe, not into the gullet. 
Thrust it down through the opening which an ex- 
amination will reveal in the middle of the tongue. 
‘The size of the feather should be carefully adjust- 
ed to the fowl, being large enough to fill the wind- 
pipe pretty closely. Mr. T. Conner, in recom- Pag areET ee 
i i hod, says he “never failed to  Benr vor THE REwovAL or 
mending this method, say Bex t £On Tue 
cure the worst case of gapes in this way.” Good 
results may be expected if the feather is dipped into oil, salt-water, a weak 
decoction of tobacco, or a weak solution of carbolic or sulphurous acid, in- 
stead of the turpentine. A horse-hair, twisted up so as to form a fine loop, 
may be successfully used to remove the worms, being twisted around as 
directed for the feather, but it has no tendency to expel such as may not be 
reached. 
Turpentine smeared on the beak and neck is by some said to be sufh- 
Camphor pills as large as a pea, or pieces of camphor-gum as large 
cient. 
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