The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-18
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How blest the Farmers simple life,
Far from the noise of the City's strife.
RoUP IN


This insidious disease, which carries
off so many fowls, is evidently analogous
to the distemper in the dog and the
horse. It is a species of influenza which
generally arises from exposure to cold
and wet, after having been previously,
perhaps, too much protected from the
same. 1t is for this reason that fancy
fowls which are too we'll taken care of,
are more exposed to it than others,
because considerable experience has
taught US that combining fowls in q warm
place without much circulation of air, is
far more Injurious than ordinary expo
sure. By all means let them have a
shed with a good roof to keep them dry,
and with a southern exposure; but do
not shut them up in a warm room where
they are obliged to breathe the same air
again and again. This is of itself sufi-
cient to produce disease, and often
causes Roup. There can be no doubt
that the Roup is contagious, sand per-
haps also infectious, as fowls have been
known to exhibit symptoms of it very
soon after being put into yards from
which other sick fowls had been remov-
ed. Drinking out of the same vessel
with other fowls who have it, should if
possible be prevented. A small piece
of assafetida should be kept at all times
in their water. All fowls are fond of it,
and its effect on them both as a prophy-
Tactic and otherwise are good. The
symptoms of Roup are almost always
running at the nose, though like an or
binary cold in the human species, it
takes two forms and settles either in the
head or in the throat. 1t frequently
commences by running at the nose, and
after a while leaves the head altogether
for the throat. In half grown chickens
it frequently attacks the eye until they
suppurate and are entirely destroyed !;
and this may be the case with older
fowls. When there is from the first no
running at the nose, but the disease is
entirely in the throat, the first symp-
toms viii be a hacking noise made by the
fowl. the result of an endeavor to clear
its throat of the phlegm which is there
collected.
The remedy, and the only effectual
remedy, is, a solution of alum in water
or what is better, of alum and vinegar
and water, or pure vinegar unless very
strong. The vinegar acts as a detergent
in clearing away the phlegm, while the
alum acting as an astringent upon the
infamed mucous membrane, produces at
once the most beneficial effect. Other
medicines which have been highly re-
commended have no doubt a good eff
feet, chiefly as alternatives, among
which calomel and sulphur are the best,
but this application arrests the disease
at once and, we have seen fowls al
most strangled relieved by the first tea
spoonful. The alum should be finely
pulverized and then vinegar and
water saturated with it. If the disease
attack the nose and eyes, use the same
remedy wash the roof of the mouth and
nostrils with the solution, and as in the
first instance pour some into the throat.
The extensive poultry breeders of our
acquaintance, find turpentino effcctual
in this disease, putting it in the water
which the fowls drink and dropping a
little on the head, 10 the ~nostrils and in
the roof of the mouth, when the perulent