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Lice On Fowls

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
August
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Body lice on fowls are hard to destroy and must be kept down systematically. Fanciers' Monthly says no single preparation wül entirely extermínate them and advises the following: Provide birds with good dust bath in which tobáceo dust, ashes, sulphur, etc., have been mixed. Occasionally give them a thorough powdering with buhach. The main point is to keep the roosts, nest boxes and house entirely free from vermin, and if then given a good dust bath the fowla will keep themselves comparatively free from lice. For lice on the heads of the chickens powder thern well with tobáceo dust, buhach or any good insect powder. Soine breeders use oil or grease, but we consider such a remedy worse than the disease- a dry powder is the only thing that should be applied to very small chickens. Large gray lice come from the hens. If you once rid the chickens of such vermin and thereafter pay proper attention to the coops you will experience no further trouble from that source.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News