Show roup can be prevented by providing dry house roup boup can be prevented by keeping the poultry in dry well ventilated houses housea and feeding balanced rations under such conditions it if a case appears pet rs tho the ard should be killed and burned or burled deeply says a writer in successful farming treating a CUB caso e of roup Is very discouraging the bird with roup to Is suffering buffering extreme prostration and the discharges from the disease have a repulsive odor this odor Is the facto that determines whether tho the lien hen has roup or a simple cold it if a hen ben has a cold it Is only a few st steps eps to a case of roup isolate hens hena with running eyes and treat them with one of the coal tar disinfectants disinfect ants or a roup remedy place permanganate of potash in the drinking water to keep the disease from spreading color the ilie water a deep red never return a bird with a cold to the flock until she Is thoroughly cured and looks like 1110 a healthy vigorous specimen we know of one case where a hen ben was treated tor for roup and then liberated before a cure had resulted in about a week eight other hens in the hock flock were sick with the disease and ana after another week of fussy unpleasant doctoring all of the sick hens hod had to be killed hilled to protect the remainder of the lock flock A hen which has had a severe caid should be banded so she will not be included in the breeding pens the next year when the disease has progressed until it results in roup the bird Is weakened and more subject to a repetition I 1 of tho the disease this trouble Is so serious when once started that the owner of a good flock of poultry must not hesitate to sacrifice the best look ing hen in the flock if she contracts the disease it Is necessary to protect ti the io balance of the lock flock and prevent a serious financial toss |