nostrils, either from the front or through the slit in the roof of the mouth, warm stimulating food, as meal or bread and ale, and a little pepper should be given. Remedies given internally seem to have but very little effect on the disease, but I think I have seen more benefit from half a grain of blue vitriol given once a day in meal than from any other medicine. Croup, from the similarity of its name is often confounded with Roup, from which, however, it is perfectly distinct, being inflammation of the wind-pipe, the symptoms are a difficulty of breathing and a rattling or peculiar noise in the throat, this, in some cases, is even musical; sometimes thick glairy mucus is coughed up, but there is never any swelling of the face or discharge from the nostrils, the disease is most frequent in damp weather, and yields readily to warm dry housing, and one-twelfth of a grain of tartar emetic. Inflammation of the lungs is known by a difficulty of breathing, but without the noise of croup, the same treatment with tartar emetic is advisable. Consumption, arising from the presence of scrofulous matter in the lungs, is produced by cold, damp, bad food, and is also inherited from parents; this disease being hereditary, it is worse than useless to attempt to cure fowls that are affected, as the chicken are certain to be tainted with the disease. Pip is the name given to a dry horny scale which appears on the tongue, in all those diseases in which the fowl becomes feverish; it is only a symptom of internal fever and not a disease itself, the remedy is to remove the real disease causing it. Gapes in chicken is caused by peculiar parasitic worms adhering to the inside of the windpipe; they are readily removed by stripping a small quill of its side feather, except an inch of the end, dipping it in spirits of turpentine, and inserting it in the wind-pipe; but as this remedy often excites fatal inflammation, I have suggested fumigation with the vapour of turpentine, by shutting the chicken up in a box, with some shavings moistened with the spirit, as long as they can withstand the action of the vapour, and the remedy has been found very successful. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS are simple in their treatment. A fowl sometimes becomes crop-bound from overdistending that organ; warm water poured down the throat frequently loosens the mass; but, if necessary, a perpendicular incision may be made at the upper part of the swelling sufficiently large to extract the swollen food, and it will be found to close again without the slightest difficulty; the fowl should, however, be kept on soft food for several days afterwards. Inflammation of the stomach, which is situated between the crop and the gizzard, is a very frequent cause of death in highly fed fowls--they mope, refuse to eat, pine away, and die; there is no cure for the disease, but it is readily prevented by the use of natural food--peas, greaves, hemp seed, being rigorously excluded.