Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-12-26
Roup THEORY
A Writer Who Attributes the
Trouble TO Filth.

Trouble TO Filth.
tart an inquiry among recog-
~ poultry men as to the cause
|and cure for roup: there would
zone general opinion, and
scattering opinions. The ma
Fly would vouch that it was
used by ill-built houses, draughts.
IDS, dampness, and a multitude
Nther things all in this line. The
eMould fill a great deal more
1ce, for everybody so troubled
I'D have their town infallible cure.
oseue ,.lays an important part
host of the cures, the knife also
ii star role but the hatchet is
Idered by most to be 1.-THE star
Eormer.
OF course, I've been through it
&erythlng that can happen to chick
tD}A has Travelled my way-in fact
when had the most chickens had
the most diversified trouble: there
by hangs tale--I don tell it all
but roup had considerable to do
IN changing the chicken affairs of
poultry dom.
There was time when, after
considerable figuring, (you know
that | like figuring) had it all ar
ranged to change the aspect of the
poultry market, so took a partner
a male partner lusty strong maDy
with bull head and OK strength -
bis strength and my brSinT We're TO
revoluSsnize mattepS. stood the
financial s}faal3.Tstrainis the prop
er word alright well, l found out
few things before the partnership
was dissolved, and among other
things formed a theory as to the
origin of roup.
When my partner quit | had an
elephant left on my hands. Bust
ness was pressing at the stock
NAards, where learn my daily bread,
&$ the elephant had to do some hust-
"a SQr itself. 1t didn't hustle
cent. just layed down
III. Yes it died dirty,
q roupy death, and it
Ia Tom such ashes that Matt
Nam ~in or ned his theory to the
cause of roup Well, what caused
it? You won believe me if say
that | am rather modest, so ! won t
say it-yet dread to put myself on
record with the many older and
doubtless wiser breeders opposing
me; yet do not think that a draugh-
ty house ever caused roup if kept
clean. ! don't think that chickens
ever get roup through being out in
q shower; but there is a situation
which will inevitably cause roup,
and it is this: Any house, well
built or otherwise, in which the
hens have to roost over their own
accommodating eXcretions after night,
. week after week, month after month;
those hens will take rOup..
Have YOU ever yut your head in
such house the first thing in the
morning? If you have, you have
encountered a cyclonic stink OF such
magnitude, that things material did
not appeal to your appetite for sew
erql hours, Poor biddy has had to
roost over that mess every night
is 1T any wonder that in breathing
ammonia laden fetid odor that she
contracted some trouble with her
breathing apparatus, and that her
nostrils and eyes became swollen
and cankered? Gointo one of these
pokcy, dirty houses with a spade
and undertake cleaning it out, you
will then know what mean.
Hens seldom contract roup in eX
treme cold weather, it generally
shows in the fall when the houses
are overstocked with the season
raising; whereas in summer the
hens only spend Il few hours eacl
night on the roost, in fact a gooC
many of them are IN broody coops
therefore the houses do not nee'
quite as much care and cleaning a
in the fall when the nights are long