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death. If it is a vigorous specimen to begin with it can 

 overcome the trouble if it is fed. 



Some authorities class this trouble at one or more of 

 the stages described as roup or roupy catarrh. If roup 

 is as contagious, as deathly and as quick in action as it 

 is credited with being, the presence of these symptoms 

 does not necessarily signify the presence of roup. 



CHICKEN POX AND CANKER: Careful observa- 

 tion has proven to us that a siege of pox and canker is 

 invariably preceded by signs in the droppings. During 

 our last run of the trouble we identified these signs and 

 were able to forecast within a few days of the time when 

 it would break out in a given section of the plant. The 

 particular sign is the voiding of an irregular mass, usually 

 about one-half normal size, of a peculiar grass-green 

 color and which, if it came into contact with an eggshell, 

 was practically indelible. The fact that it was found 

 on eggs in the nests indicates that the affected bird was 

 probably laying, from which we deduce that the disease 

 is of quick development. 



It is the writer's belief that it develops in the intesti- 

 nal tract. This is contrary to the idea that the disease is 

 a fungus growth, contagious through infection of wounds 

 or scratches. 



Whether or not chicken pox and canker are always 

 coincident is immaterial. We have never had one with- 

 out the other, excepting in what the scientist terms 

 "sporadic'' cases which as we understand it has reference 

 to a single, isolated case of a disease which is ordinarily 

 epidemic. The writer recalls an instance several years 

 ago where he found a perfectly developed case of chicken 



