FANCIERS JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
fact. Huis reply was, ‘That he picked them out himself, but 
in the evening, and if such was sent was not aware of it, and 
offered to remit the money back to be, or would satisfy me 
with eggs in the spring; I could take my choice.’? This J 
am satisfied is an honest dealer, and, with the one exception 
stated, the fowls sent me far exceeded my expectations. 
Twice the amount I paid for them would not induce me to 
part with them. 
I deem it a duty, in justice to our reputation, and in order 
to maintain the dignity of our business, to expose every case 
of dishonest dealing that comes to our notice as soon as the 
facts can be investigated. Iam confident the Journal will 
gladly publish such, and aid us all to build up the business, 
by weeding out dishonesty. G. O. Brown. 
MONTYUE POULTRY YARDS, BROOKLANDVILLE, MD. 

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WORMS IN FOWLS. 

Mr. Epiror: 
Although trifling as this subject may seem to many, I 
have learned to regard it as a complaint of great importance, 
for the simpte reason that it is generally overlooked, or 
rather credited to some other disease. It first attracted my 
attention as cholera (7. e., the symptoms in a distressing case 
were similar), such as, refusal of food, great thirst; drop- 
pings of a greenish character at first, and afterward be- 
coming thin and whitish; great weakness, cramps, ruffled 
plumage, &c.; the only difference being, that the fowls did 
not die off suddenly, or in great numbers, but sometimes 
lived over a week in this distressing condition. 
I began treatment on a pullet for cholera, but without any 
apparent relief. Expecting her to die at all events, I gave 
her a full half ounce of laudanum, to see what a fowl could 
endure. In about five hours after I looked at her, and being 
still alive, I examined the droppings, and found a worm. It 
was about two inches in length, and the thickness of a 
medium corn-broom splint, both ends coming to a sharp 
point like a pin, with one end slightly curved. I then pro- 
cured common worm-seed, and made a strong tea, and gave 
her three tablespoonfuls. Next morning I found her still 
alive, though totally blind in one eye, and nearly so in the 
other ; the effects of laudanum, perhaps. During the night 
she had passed about twenty worms, all as above described. 
I then concluded to put an end to her existence, and upon 
opening her found the liver about twice its natural size, and 
otherwise diseased, having the appearance of decay in spots. 
The intestines were greatly inflamed from the gizzard 
throughout, and in two places I found small white warty- 
looking substances grown fast on the inner side, also several 
worms, making in all about thirty in this fowl. 
I afterward gave my fowls worm-seed, mixed in soft food, 
and numbers of worms passed from them, after which there 
was a decided improvement; and, although the weather was 
unfavorable, they soon began laying, and looked cheerful. 
The first indications I noticed of worms was a dull, stupid 
appearance, loss of appetite, and rather stiff, crampish move- 
ments. ; 
The pullet referred to, with a number of others, was raised 
by my father, some four miles distant. His runs are rather 
damp, being what might be called good meadow lands. 
A few years ago I received a lot of turkeys, which were 
raised on similar grounds, and noticing the stupor and loss 
of appetite in one, I fed it soft food for a few days, mixing 
in cattle powder, in hopes of improving the appetite, and in 

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a few days hundreds of small, conical-looking worms passed 
from her (they were about one-fourth of an inch in length), 
after which it became as bright and lively as any of them. 
I am convinced that this complaint in fowls exists to a 
great extent, and is not suspected. A. OC. HUNSBERGER. 
PORTLAND, Pa., March 2, 1874. 
N.B. The laudanum was made by rather an unqualified 
druggist, and consequently may not have been full strength., 
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(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
CORN FODDER FOR FOWLS. 
In a recent number of the Fanciers’ Journal a corres- 
pondent recommends hay for fowls in winter. Corn fodder 
is also excellent where fowls are confined in a small yard 
without grass; they will eat the blades of the corn quite 
eagerly. Where a small quantity of sweet corn is raised in 
the garden, it is an excellent plan to cut off and cure the 
stalks when the ears are taken off for table use. The blades 
will then be much sweeter and better than if left to ripen 
and dry before cutting. pcan 

CURE FOR ROUP. 
THis disease—so common, so fatal, and so easily cured— 
is the dread of many fanciers. Asa gentleman, from Phila- 
delphia, who was treating this disease experimentally, wrote 
me: ‘It is a nasty disease, and so contagious that it can be 
spread through a flock by allowing any of them access to a 
room or house where a patient has been kept weeks before.”’ 
My experience has been a sad one, for, until the last year 
or two, I thought it incurable; consequently, many of our 
fowls perished from neglect. 
My treatment is simply this: In the first stage of the 
disease, which is denoted by a watery substance exuding 
from the eye, I give a dose of castor oil, which will gener- 
ally be sufficient to effect a cure; but, if a fowl has not been 
noticed in this stage and left until the roof of the mouth and 
tonsils become ulcerated, several doses of oil may be neces- 
sary, about twelve hours apart. I use asmall mop, dipped in 
vinegar, to cleanse the roof of the mouth, throat, head and 
nostrils; after which, instead of the lunar caustic for burning 
the ulcers, I dip a mop or feather in soft soap (which all 
good housekeepers generally have) and touch every ulcer. 
This answers every purpose, is convenient, and in its use 
there is not the danger of destroying the membrane of the 
larynx as with the caustic. 
By using the vinegar wash and soap, several times as 
needed, and giving the necessary doses of oil or ‘castor 
beans,”’ you need never loose a case from roup. 

PEA FOWLS. 
THINKING some years of experience in early life with these 
beautiful birds may not be amiss in answer to ‘D.,”’ last 
volume, page 822, I will say that I met at the beginning 
with the same difficulty that has overtaken him. In those 
days we lacked the advantages of poultry books and a ‘* Coun- 
try Gentleman’ to apply to; hence I had to get my knowl- 
edge by experience. The pea fowl is a native of India, 
where the writer has seen it, wild andtame. The difference 
in the two conditions is not apparent to casual observation. 
Besides our common bird, there are some other varieties 
