AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
day; if nothing else is used, give two treatments 
with the hydrogen peroxide daily, forcing it well 
back in the throat with a small syringe, medicine 
dropper, or swab. Wash the mouth and nostrils 
once or twice a day with a solution of boric acid, 
fifteen grains to an ounce of water. If the eyes 
are closed or smeared with a sticky fluid, bathe 
them with salt water, a half teaspoonful of salt 
in a pint of water. Another good head lotion is 
composed of one part spirits of turpentine to six 
‘parts glycerine. Apply with a bit of absorbent 
cotton twisted about the end of a toothpick, or use 
the end of a stiff feather. 
Roup is often accompanied by a form of canker 
in the mouth and throat, although this trouble may 
and often does appear on a bird that 
has not the roup. The disease comes 
in the form of small whitish or yellowish ulcers, or 
a larger cheesy growth on the roof of the mouth, 
the side of the tongue, or the angles of the jaw, and 
sometimes at the opening of the windpipe. Burnt 
alum applied to the canker will often effect a cure. 
or a little aristol may be applied to each sore place. 
Spray the throat well each day with peroxide of 
hydrogen. A bad form of the disease is usually 
fatal, but if taken in time a cure may be effected 
without serious difficulty. 
During cold, stormy winter weather, even fowls 
having the best of care and management some- 
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