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warm place, mix a good quantity of hemp seed in their ordi¬ 
nary food, and tinge their water with saffron. 
When the birds are affected with the wet roup , give them a 
few pepper corns once in three or four days, and put some 
green rue in their water. 
The dry roup is a husky cough, arising from a cold; when 
three or four cloves of garlic should be given to the birds daily. 
When your pigeons are infested with insects , fumigate their 
feathers thoroughly with tobacco. 
The canker is occasioned by the cocks pecking each other, 
which, as they are extremely irritable, they often do. To cure 
it, rub the part daily with a mixture of burnt alum and honey. 
If the incrusted flesh round the eyes of “ carriers,” “ Barbs,” 
or “horsemen,” be injured or pecked, bathe it with salt water; 
and if, in some days, this remedy does not succeed, another 
lotion composed of three drachms and a half of alum, dissolved 
in two ounces of water should be tried. 
When “ pouters” and “croppers” gorge themselves, by over¬ 
eating, after long fasting, put the bird, feet downward, into a tight 
stocking, smoothing up the crop so that, overloaded as it is, it 
may be kept from hanging down; then hitch up the stocking on 
a nail, and keep the bird a prisoner until its food is digested, 
supplying it with a small quantity of water occasionally. 
When the bird is taken out of the stocking, it should be put 
into an open cocp or basket, and fed but scantily for a while. 
For lameness , or swelled halls of the feet , whether from cold, 
cuts with glass, or any accident, the most effectual application 
is a small quao'dy of Venice turpentine spread on a piece.of 
brown paper. 
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