Dear Sir: Believing it a duty to make public anything that may be advantageous to others, I submit the following infallible remedy for the gapes or gaps in young chickens. It. is well known that a species of entozoa, called the red-worm, infests the trachea of fowls, obstructing the air-passage, or windpipe - the cause of this distressing malady.

In answer to a letter, in which I briefly stated my experience, Prof. S. S, Haldiman informed me that D. J. Brown describes the worm, and gives various remedies in his American Poultry- Yard (p. 264) [this I have not seen], adding that my method was new to him; it may be so to others - I have, at least, never seen it published.

Take a hair from a horse's tail; double it once or twice, if need be, to stiffen it; twist the doubled hair between your thumb and finger, so as to leave but a small loop at the other end.

Now seize the tip of the tongue of the afflicted fowl, and extend it out and downwards, which will enable you to introduce the doubled horse-hair as far down the windpipe as necessary; let the hair untwist, or assist a rotary motion with your thumb and finger, which will entangle the slimy worm, and it will be found on the hair on withdrawing it.

Sometimes two or more are brought away at one operation, much to the relief of the sufferer, and, when skilfully performed, effects a perfect cure, to which I can testify. The following drawing represents this parasite considerably enlarged. The head is cup-shaped, open, the larger being the female; the male is smaller, and soldered on, centrally, at some distance behind the head of the female, the body of which is contorted, and watered by thread-like bodies, of various shades of colors, curiously plaited and twisted within, and distinctly visible through the transparent cuticle. Those may prove to consist of species of ento-phyta, or vegetable parasites, found within the animal parasite, many of which are beautifully illustrated, and the accounts published, by the Smithsonian Institute, the discovery and research of your fellow-citizen, Joseph Leidy, M. D.

Very respectfully yours, Jacob Stauffer.

Mount Joy, Pa.