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that the temperature of a poultry house should never fall much below freezing. A warm 

 house breeds vermin even in winter. The preventive and remedy for all kinds of lice upon 

 fowls is dust. Into a little ashes, dry-slaked lime, and now and then a handful of flour of 

 sulphur, may occasionally be thrown into the dusting box, and if the dust is kept clean and 

 dry, and is fine enough, the whole house, roosts, nests, and all will be covered with it. 

 Double glazing of the windows, or green-house sashes used in poultry houses, are a great 

 advantage; and by this, a disagreeable dripping is prevented in cold weather.&quot; 



A warm poultry house, combined with good food and suitable management, will be sure 

 to result in a liberal supply of eggs during the winter. Besides, if the poultry house is not 

 kept sufficiently warm, there will be a liability of the fowls having frozen combs, especially 

 the single-combed fowls, such as the Cochins. We knew an old lady who had a very 

 original device for preventing frost-bitten combs, and who kept thirty Leghorns, but whose 

 hen-house was somewhat dilapidated and cold. Not wishing to have her pets disfigured with 

 frozen combs, she made a flannel night-cap for each one, and regularly every cold night she 

 visited the hen-house after the fowls had gone to roost, and put them on. It was a most 

 comical sight to see these hens all in a row on the roost adorned with red flannel night-caps. 

 Before the next winter, however, she had the hen house repaired, as the night-cap institution 

 proved too troublesome to render its continuance profitable. 



