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quart of water and let it boil for twenty minutes. Then add 

 one quart of new milk, and let it again come to a boil. Strain 

 this liquid through a cloth or a fine strainer. When cool 

 give this to the birds to drink, and nothing but this for three 

 days. Then feed a mash of corn meal with just a pinch of 

 Venetian red mixed in it. Moisten with milk that has just 

 come to a boil. 



RATTLES. 



In case of rattles of the throat, give a dose of salts. Keep 

 the bird in a dry, warm place. Rub the outside of the throat 

 well under the beak and well down the neck with croup specific 

 which can be bought at any drug store. Heat it as hot as your 

 hand can stand it before applying. Mix equal parts of the 

 croup specific and glycerine, heat it well, and pour a small ta- 

 blespoonful of it down the bird's throat. Continue this treat- 

 ment from three to five days and you will find it will cure the 

 most stubborn case. 



There is a cold or distemper that gets in many flocks of 

 growing chickens in the fall, around the first of October. 

 Growing chickens seem to take cold much easier in the fall 

 than at any other time of the year. They will foam at the 

 eyes, run at the nose, and cough a great deal. iYou might 

 think the bird had a case of roup, but it is the fall distemper 

 and if not attended to at once it will run into roup, so always 

 be on the lookout for these fall distempers. 



You will find that if one or two of your flock gets this dis- 

 ease, your whole flock will be affected in a few days. A good 

 many times it comes with looseness of the bowels. It is much 

 harder to handle in this form. A good many advise shutting 

 the birds up, treating them in the same way you would for 

 roup ; but you would have to catch each bird and give him his 



