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Mix a teaspoonful of pure creolln in a gallon of water. At night 

 take a hand pump — one that throws a fine mist — and spray about the 

 roosts so that the birds may inhale the creolln. They will cough and 

 sneeze. Never mind. Make a thorough job of it. Repeat every night 

 for a week. Pour a little kerosene oil — enough to make a film — over 

 their drinking water. Give each sick bird one grain quinine pill at 

 night. Repeat once or twice. Place enough permanganate of potash 

 in a cup of water to color It a deep red. Dip the bird's head in the 

 solution keeping it there ten or fifteen seconds. Repeat. Give this 

 treatment twice daily so long as need be. If it is nothing but a "cold" 

 this treatment will cure. If it grows worse, if the peculiar roup odor 

 is present, then the hatchet is the only safe and sure "cure." 



The disease called gapes is caused by worms in the windpipe. It 

 mostly affects chicks from one to four weeks old, and therefore it is 

 very hard to treat effectively. 



If any of your chicks are drooping, ^sneezing, coughing, going about 

 with their mouths open, look for gape worms. They are thready 

 creatures from an eighth to a half inch long and are found clinging to 

 the chicks windpipe. 



The only thing to do is to separate the sick from the well and 

 remove each to a new location. And the old ground should never 

 be used again for young chicks. If you have the time, skill and 

 patience, you may remove the worms by hand. If not, you might 

 place the afflicted chicks in a box or barrel and let some air-slacked 

 lime sift over them through a piece of bagging. Use care in this so 

 that the little fellows will not strangle. 



Enough could be written about other ills affecting poultry to fill 

 a book as large as this. The writing of such a book might help a man 

 employed by an endowed state college or station to kill time; but it 



