Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1874 — Gapes in Chickens. [ARTICLE]

Gapes in Chickens.

The editor of the Lancaster (Pa.) Farmer says: “ In a recent conversation with an experienced chicken grower he informed us that he had been very successful in conquering that precarious disease in his young fowls by the appli cation of air-slaked lime. As soon as a manifestation of gapes in his fowls appears he confine? his chickens in a box, one at a time, sufficiently large to contain the bird, and places a coarse piece of cotton or linen cloth over the top. Upon this he places the pulverized lime, and taps the screen sufficiently to cause the lime to fall through. This lime dust the fowl inhales, and it causes it to sneeze, and in a short time- the cause of the gapes is thrown out in the form of a slimy mass or masses of worms, which hac. accumulated in the wind-pipe and smaller air vessels. This remedy he considers superior to aDy he has ever tried, and he seldom fails to effect a permanent cure. He has abjured all those mechanical means by which it is attempted to dislodge the entozoa with instrument? made of whalebone, hog’s bristles, or fine wire, alleging that people are quite as certain to push the gape worms further down the throat of the fowls as to draw them out.” ___ —About 300 houses have been erected in Salt Lake this year, notwithstanding the unprecedented dull times.