GAPES IN FOWLS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2585, 29 April 1887, Page 2

GAPES IN FOWLS.

The fact that the disease-known - as gapra iu poultry is produced, by.a ,par« aeitic -.worm (Syngamw -fraaWfeJ,-. whiob infests ton trachea of the, birdst, waß Battled long ago) and for most 'of. ' our recent knowledge of tbe wor.tn and " ; the disease we ara indebted; to -the v essay ot Pierre Meghip. Accord. - ing to tliio author, the mature woruu A and their eggs are coughed out of thi W throat of the infioted fowl, and the T " disease is spread by its associates picking them. up along with -their';-, food or by drinking water in with' the egg* . may havo hatched into larva?, No suggestion is allowed of any -intermediate host. Mr H. D, .Walker in an apparently carefully prepared paper on this subject (Bulletin Buffalo • Society Natural Sciences, 1886) dotaiU many experiments which He has tribe], and several of them point very strongly to the conclusion that the earth worm may, in many cases, piuy a part in tho distribution of the post. The embryos have bora found living in the'earth worm at all seasons of the year, and earth worms from infested localities, when fed to chickens, almost invariably, produce the disease, Dr Walker has also procured the disease in robins, and claims to have found the embryo of the lung worm of calves (StVflH</i/fo» mirrum) in the earth worm,

ENGLISH IRISH AND SCOTCH. Looking at the population of tho & three kingdoms, it may easily be preoeived that (hero is considerabW difference amoug them as. to terapora* uient. Tho Irish' aro gay, ardent ', the Scotch aro comparatively cool, Steady,- • and cautious j tho English are' perhaps, a fair average between tbe' twQ, we remember that it was not iuojegautly observed by' a friend that.au -English, man thinks and speaks \ a. pcotyhmaa thinks twice oofore he ajwaks > anf au Irishman speaks before lie thinks-. A; lady present added, "A thinks with his head, an Inshmau-wlth •;. 'his heart," This illusion to.impulse oporatingmorerapidlythaiideliberation isakinto Miss Edgawortb's remark,tbai , aulrishmaumay err with hig.bojd, never with lriskeartjonotruth, however, ' - being that he obeys his hearfcinotafwayi waiting for tho dictates Some years ago there was very graphioally portraying thewgrsdes' of difference in the ardor oj the .three '■£* nations. An Bnglißhman, : andaScotchman were looking through at s beautiful young woman,', wbg, wu serving in the shpp... Mr Patrick, "dolebu&'bo/.&pfedinga Half crown with" the-dear-mytnte, that wolniay look at her oonvamently, :• and have a bit of a chat with her.' '/•■ "You extravagant dog!" aaid;Mr Joba, ■ .;&' " I'm aure one-half the. ' do just as woll, But let us .go-m by. f! : is a charming 'girl.""'.; "Ah I /wait a bit !■' interpQSQtl Mr v v Andrew, •• itjinna ye ken it'll perVe aar • :; purpose equally weel to ask the; v bonntß ,(i ,;~ laßsie to givV%.twa stilling, and -inquire where'g^Mr '"'.■£ IB Thompson's hoose, tind sic.like 1 tWa'w' no hungry, and may as weU-aavVjW. :• ,-M