Fowls are afflicted with parasitic wrigglers in their poor little throats.

The disease is called "gapes," because they try to open their bills for more air until a red worm in the trachea causes suffocation.

This horrid red worm, called scientifically Scelorostoma syngamus, destroys annually half a million of chickens.
Dr.Crisp, of England, says it would be of truly national importance to find the means of preventing its invasion.
The unpleasant results of hens and garden contiguous, Warner has described.

They are incompatible if not antagonistic.

One man wisely advises: "Fence the garden in and let the chickens run, as the man divided the house with his quarrelsome wife, by taking the inside himself and giving her the outside, that she might have room according to her strength." Looking over the long list of diseases to which fowls are subject is dispiriting.