POULTRY, rrs DISEASES. 
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tea-spoonful of flowers of sulphur. This is also good in scaly leg, and 
eruptions of various kinds, using also, after washing clean, the following: 
Ho. 6. 4 Ounces lard oil, 
1 Ounce turmeric powder. 
Anoint tho affected parts. 
Catarrh — Symptoms like the first in Roup. Cleanliness is the best 
prevention. To cure, feed black pepper in mashed potatoes. If toil 
i'ails, take : 
Ho. 6, 8 Parts pulverized charcoal, 
3 Pails new yeast, 
2 Parts flowers of sulphur, 
1 Part flour. 
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Mix into pills the size of a hazelnut and give one, three times a day; 
bathe the nostrils and eyes frequently with tepid milk and water, and 
keep the fowls otherwise clean. 
Crop Bound. 
The food sometimes becomes bound and impacted in the crop. The 
remedy is to make an incision into the crop sufficiently largo so the con- 
tents may be. carefully extracted with a blunt instrument. Close with a 
stitch, and feed with soft food for two or three days, in which a little 
gentian and cayenne pepper is mixed. 
Diphtheria, or Croup. 
It may bo known by the cough, raising of the head to breathe, and the 
offensive smell. 
What to do — Strip a feather to within half an inch of the end ; wet it 
and dip in powdered borax, and swab the throat well. Nitrate of silver 
would be more effective. Give to drink, chloride of potassium one-fourth 
of an ounce dissolved in a half gallon of water. 
Preventive — Cleanliness, good ventilation and care. The rule will ap- 
ply to roup, catarrh, gapes, pip, and other acute and chronic diseases. 
Pip — This is a result of other diseases rather than a disease of itself. 
Remove the crust at the tip of the tongue and wash with chloride of soda, 
examine the nostrils for any stoppage, and give a tea-spoonful of castoi 
oil if the fowl be very sick. 
Rheumatism — Cause — Exposure to damp and cold winds, and bad 
roosting places ; remove the fowls to comfortable quarters, and feed 
warm, rather soft, stimulating food. 
Laying soft eggs — Give plenty of lime rubbish, burned and broken 
oyster shells, or bone meal. 
