Yesterday morning the hen in returning to 
her nest trod upon and thoroughly crushed, 
the original shell. I think it was weakened 
hy a previous small crank in the narrow end, 
which I had covered with a little bit of posh 
age stamp edging. T was certain the chick 
would die if left ; as, if not crushed, the skin 
would bind it and dry to it ; but it would 
probably have been crushed between the 
other eggs, as T have often had happen. 
They were due. to hatch to-day, and I there¬ 
fore thought that an outside shell might pre 
serve it for the necessary time ; so I took an 
egg-shell that had been used at breakfast, 
raised it a little, and slipped it over the small 
end. and joined it to the original top (which 
SHEPHERD NOTES 
Lorfxutc A cid and Scab.— Th« sheep edi¬ 
tor of the Western Rural says:—“If any 
sign of the scab remain in your flock, do not 
negledt, it a day. We have found the most 
useful as well as efficacious cure for scab to 
be carbolic sheep dip. It not only cures this 
loathsome disease, but is extremely beneficial 
m producing such a healthy sl ate'of the skin 
;us lK » materially increase the growth of wool. 
U will also destroy ticks, which, after shear¬ 
ing., will mostly be found on the lambs. It 
is (Still further useful in that it will keep off 
ner insects—posts which may be infesting 
ax ly gore or wound. We have estimated the 
tx so of this compound to cost about 3# cents 
Tper animal, for the cure of scab or destruc¬ 
tion of ticks.” 
Wool a Sure Thing. —An Illinoisan, who 
doubtless contrasts the profits from his corn 
and wheat fields with the wool his sheep pro¬ 
duces, says;—“Wool is a sure tiling every 
year, and brings cash—perhaps not much, 
but will keep years and years and not spoil 
if you can afford to hold. Wool-growing re¬ 
quires hut little hired help, and you are free 
from these Btrikes that wheat harvests will 
always have. The work is done when we 
hare pleasant weather and there is no abso- 
lute pressure. Sheep will increase the fortil- 
ROUP IN CHICKENS 
BLOOD DISEASES AMONG LAMBS 
I wisn to inquire what the disease is that 
is troubling my fowls. It commenced in the 
old ones, and has commenced in the little 
chicks. They ulcerate about the eyes and 
mouth, and it is accompanied with a bad 
smell. The eye fills with a hard, yellow 
matter. In some cases I can Lake it out with 
a needle and they get well. What can I use 
as an effectual remedy ?— J. Scott, Franklin 
Co., 0. 
The trouble is roup. In the Rural New- 
Yorker of April 19, we published the follow¬ 
ing from a correspondent at Paducah, Ky.: 
“A Houdan hen, the only one of the breed 
that I have had sick during the past two 
years, had the roup badly about four weeks 
since. Being but a tyro among chickens, 
and having loaned my volume of wisdom on 
chickens known as the “People's Practical 
Poultry Book,” 1 was somewhat at. a loss 
for a treat ment; but something bad to be 
done quickly. T had in the house, for medi¬ 
cal purpose, a solution of carbolic acid, 35 
grains to 4 ounces of water, and determined 
to apply it. 1 did so by wetting a cloth in 
the solution and carefuliv washing the hen’s 
bill, eyes and nostrils with it. lu half an 
hour she was much better, when, hoping that 
she might possibly live, I gave her six drops 
of the solution in a teaspoonful of water. 
Two hours after she began to eat, when she 
was taken in and received a good washing, 
face and eyes, with warm water and milk, 
and a dose of castor oil. The next morning 
she was perfectly well, and has been laying 
ever since.” 
In our issue of April 12, in answer to an 
inquiry how to treat roup, we said (—Those 
affected should at once be separated from 
the rest and kept in a warm and dry place. 
Then strip a feather to within half or three- 
fourths of the end, dip it in nitric arid and 
thrust it into the nostril of the sick bird, giv¬ 
ing it a twist while in. Do this two or three 
times a day, removing the burnt scab before 
applying the acid. Three or four applica¬ 
tions generally cure. 
An English remedy is separation and con¬ 
finement as above ; a tablespoon ful of castor 
oil every morning, fed with soft food only, 
mixed with ale and chopped vegetables. It 
also recommended to wash the head, eyes 
and inside of the mouth and nostrils with 
vinegar, it being very cleansing. 
From 
various districts wc learn that losses 
of greater or less numbers have been taking 
place among lambs and sheep from an affec¬ 
tion which exhibits similar signs in both pa¬ 
rents and offspring. In the outset it appears 
the lambs were first to suffer, and they gave 
indications of pain, lameness, and subse¬ 
quently swelling in a hind or fore quarter. 
Somewhat later a sero-sanga/inco us or blood 
and water discharge issued f "om the affected 
a. martin of L/hfton ” gives the follow¬ 
ing testimony concerning the effect of 
l lromo-iChlomlum upon trees as affecting the 
attacks of the curculio. We do not take 
miuc* stock in the advertisement, as it is in¬ 
tended to be, but publish it as a matter of 
record : 
4 Having received some fine trees from Mr. 
Kaundkrs of the IT. S. Propagating Gardens 
a few years ago, I was unable, with themosl 
careful culture, to obtain good fruit; after 
flounslung early it was attacked by the 
worm, and the fruit when quite large, dried 
and fell off. It occurred this spring to try 
Bromo-Chloralum. Before the trees put forth 
1 went over them carefully and, with a pen¬ 
knife, cut out the part which was ‘‘bored ’ 
last year, removed the gum and Wren, with a 
small brush, painted the holes and branches 
with Bromo-Chloralum freely; this I con 
tinned every five days after the sap began to 
run. 1 used one part Bromo to eight parts 
witter; of course, n gardener of experience 
ought increase or decrease the strength by 
observation. Well, at present, this 27th of 
June, wc have a fine selection of apricots 
well matured, large and smooth, first time in 
fotir years. I have no doubt the effect will 
be the same on plums and nectarines. I in¬ 
tend to syringe grape vines, to prevent 
blights. I experimented very carefuliv -ml 
TURKEY CHICKS DESTROYED BY 
THUNDER. 
I tried to raise some turkeys this summer, 
and thought I should have a nice brood ; but 
a few days before the time of hatching we 
had a thunder storm which killed all the 
chicks in tin eggs. I do not understand how 
it could lie that l huuder would kill the chicks, 
but i was told that, it often happened ; yet 1 
do not feel quite sure about it, and t hought I 
would write to the Rural to see if i could 
get an explanation. Some one has just told 
me that it is not the thunder that kills the 
chicks by detonation, but that. It, is the lighte¬ 
ning acting as an electric shock through the 
ground, i. e,, the ground being the medium 
or conductor. Will you please explain the 
matter, and oblige one of your young read¬ 
ers.— Sammib, Manlius, N. V. 
Sammie, we cannot explain it, for we don’t 
understand it. YVe don’t suppose any one 
knows whether it. was thunder, or lightning, 
or both, or neither, except theoretically, 
Because it thundered and lightened and the 
chicks died, it don’t, follow that they died be¬ 
cause it thundered and lightened, any more 
than because it rained. We are not sure 
that the rain did not have as much to do 
with the death of the chicks as the thunder, 
or the lightning, or both. But suppose it 
was the thunder or the lightning that killed 
the chicks, and it is proved to you that it 
was, what are you going to do about it ? 
Stop attempting to raise turkeys because 
there maybe thunder storms? We would 
not. We have raised turkeys in spite of 
thunder storms. Be sure that if a man who 
tells you the thunder storm killed the chicks 
cannot make it clear to yon why and how it 
does it, he knows nothing about it; has prob¬ 
ably been told it is so by some one no wiser 
than he is. Ask for reasons of such folks, 
and you’ve “got ’em”—the folks, not the 
reasons always ! 
notice, we are informed that the lambs were 
finely grown and in excellent condition, and 
shortly after tin* tails were amputated the 
mortality took place. Later, the sheep, which 
were subjected to the operation of olipping 
have also become affected, and aft er suffering 
in an ident ical manner, die off as the lambs 
did. From a careful Consideration of the 
details as they have reached us, we do not 
hesitat e to conclude the disease in both young 
and old animals is the same—a blood poison, 
known as black-quarter, quarter-felon, black- 
spauld, Ac. 
It will not be without interest if we ex¬ 
amine what connection there may he exist¬ 
ing between the appearance of the disease 
and the operation. There cannot, possibly 
arise any question of probability that either 
docking or clipping were the causes primari- 
WHITE COMB 
“How can I cure this disease? It has 
appeared on my fowls.” So asks A. P. S. 
Bemunt says it can be cured “by applying 
cocoanut, oil and trumeric. This simple rem¬ 
edy has been tried with perfect success. No 
other oil but that of cocoanut seems to an¬ 
swer the purpose. The proport ions are about 
a quarter of an ounce of turmeric powder to 
one ounce of cocoanut oil. The latter at an 
ordinary temperature is solid and very much 
resembles spermaceti ; but it easily blends 
with the turmeric and forms a yellow oint¬ 
ment. Three or four applications, with a 
day’s interval between each, will usually be 
found effectual. 
ARBORICULTURAL NOTES. 
Honey Locust for Live Fence Costs. _- 
Subscriber,” Jonesville, Wis., asks “ What 
do you think of honey locusts planted te* or 
twelve feet apart for live fence posts. Other 
trees have been suggested in your columns- 
why will not the locust do ? ” They will for 
aught we can see. We never saw this tree 
so used, but know no objection to using it. 
POULTRY NOTES 
Best Flooring for a Hennery, —Will you, or 
some of your experienced readers, tell me 
the best kind of ;i floor for a hennery. Should 
a plank floor be used under any circum¬ 
stances ?— Novice. 
No ; the best floor is dry gravel; not too 
coarse, and it should not be packed, but, kept 
loose to the depth of two or three inches. 
Coal ashes is an excellent substance to mix 
with the. gravel, especially if the latter is tol¬ 
erably coarse. The floor of a hennery should 
always be dry—that is, good drainage should 
be secured. 
Indian Corn for Growing Chickens , it is 
asserted by experienced poulterers, is not 
profitable feed. Indian corn meal, it is as¬ 
serted, does not make bone. Ground oats, 
barley meal, meat scraps and curd of new 
milk, turned with rennet, are recommended 
instead. 
GARDENER’S NOTES. 
T7ie “New; Strawberry Dwarf Tomato ” 
was announced in England last spring by 
seedsmen there, in |;he following language; 
“ An entirely distinct variety, of novel form 
and totally different in appearance to all 
other tomatoes. The fruit has a juicy pulp 
of a pleasant, strawberry-like flavor, with a 
certain degree of sweetness and ’acidity. 
With the addition of lemon juice, it is fre¬ 
quently preserved like plums, ae well as 
stewed hke cranberries, if kept from the frost 
tifl spring. It has proven to be the Cape 
Gooseberry — Physalis edulis. There are 
some English gardeners disgusted. 
Canada Vidor Tomato, — An Ohio cor¬ 
respondent writes he planted seed in a hot- 
beil April 3, transplanted the laBt of May to 
opn ground and had ripe Cquatoes from the 
AIDING A CHICKEN’S BIRTH 
A writer in the Journal of Horticulture 
says “ 1 send with this an egg-shell from 
which a chick has just been hatched. If you 
examine it you will find it a double shell. 1 
do not mean to say that the hen laid it so, 
but I forward it as a successful dodge by 
which I think 1 saved the life of a chick. 
