RELIEVING WIND-PUFF. 39 
low roof as a protection from rain and sun, and 
tightly enclosed with wire netting. Inside is a coop 
in which the convalescent fowls spend the nights. 
A box in one corner is kept well supplied with soft 
food (bran and meal moisted with skim-milk), and 
a dish in the other corner contains the water, which 
should be frequently renewed. Some of our in- 
structors tell us to feed lightly at first; others advise 
giving all the food that the birds will eat. I usually 
have tried to keep the box supplied with food all 
the time, but it is a hard task, for the birds have a 
keen appetite and eat a great deal. Just as soon as 
a capon is put into the ‘‘hospital,’ and once gets 
sight of the feed-box, he will forget all the trials 
which he has just experienced, and at once proceed 
to fill his crop. It is well to keep the birds confined 
in close quarters for at least eight days after the 
operation. Many of them ‘‘wind-puff’’ badly, a 
lot of air gathering under the outside 
skin and giving the capon a puffed-up 
appearance and probably causing much incon- 
venience. I usually looked the confined birds over 
once a day, and gave speedy relief where needed by 
pricking the puffed-up skin with the point of a keen 
pen-knife. Part of the birds do not need this atten- 
tion; others wind-puff right along for a week or so, 
and need frequent touches with the pen-knife. 
Usually you can tell by the appearance, and aiways 
by the feeling, whether there is wind-puff and cause 
for treatment. In consequence of this confinement, 
of the treatment and of their voracious appetite, the 
capons become exceedingly tame and tractable. 
On some occasions I have given the capon his full 
Wind-Puff. 
