24 RAisrua fowls and eggs 



as I have space in this little book barely to aUude to the com 

 men aUments of fowls. 



In my previous works, however, I have advised the use of 

 the G-erman Roup Pills as a palliative and general corrective 

 for use in the fowl-yard. This preparation is an old one, and 

 it has been thoroughly tested in Europe and America, until it 

 has come to be an established specific everywhere among 

 American poultry-raisers, appreciated through its intrinsic 

 merits. As a general medicine, for practical use at a mo- 

 ment's notice upon the approach of diseases among the fowl 

 flocks, these German Pills have no rival in excellence. 



It has now come to be very generally understood that that 

 troublesome affection known as roup, is one of the very worst 

 enemies we have to contend with, in poultry raising ; and its 

 presence in the houses or runs is the greatest bar to success in 

 rearing good younglings, or in keeping grown fowls, usefully. 

 These pills are now manufactured very largely and are sold all 

 over the country, to the great satisfaction of those who use 

 them. H. H. Stoddard of Hartford, has recently become pro- 

 prietor of this curative for ailing fowls, and we refer to his 

 advertisement at the close, of this book with pleasure — know- 

 ing, as mostof our readers do, — that he would not recommend 

 it, or have undertaken the sale of this preparation, unless he 

 well knew its value and efficacy. 



The coop in which the mother hen is confined until her 

 brood is a month to six weeks' old, may be very simple in its 

 construction (see pages 17, 19.) It should be without a floor, 

 and of convenient size to be portable. The roof, common pitch, 

 and overhanging the eaves sufficiently to shed the rain — in 

 that portion to which she resorts at night, or for shelter from 

 bad weather. The rest of this cage may be open, slatted with 

 laths (see page 17) set far enough apart oh the framing to 

 allow the chicks to pass out and in, at their pleasure. 



This coop can be taken up and moved about the grass-plat 

 easily, (as see design on p. 14,) and placed upon a fresh spot of 

 the lawn, or run — thus benefitting . hen and chickens, largely. 



