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PREVENTION AGAINST LICE. 



Almost all poultry are lousy, more or less. " A. B." 

 says: good arrangements for dusting will always keep the 

 lice in check. The small hen louse moves along the 

 roosts and sides of the building several feet, and some- 

 times annoys cattle and horses, but the trouble to them is 

 quite temporary. If the fowls are free from them, they 

 will leave other stock at once. Eoosts ought always to be 

 removable, so that they can be scraped and washed with 

 kerosene. I find kerosene or crude petroleum an excel- 

 lent addition to whitewash. This treatment, with a good 

 dusting-box for the fowls, in which there may be occa- 

 sionally thrown a pailful of wood ashes and a pound of 

 flowers of sulphur, will keep lice effectually in check. 

 Horses and cattle in adjoining apartments, vfith only 

 loose board partitions separating them from the poultry- 

 house, will not be seriously troubled by the vermin. 



A POULTRTMAN'S CROOK. 



J. L. Cunningham, Gonzales Co., Texas, writes us: 

 It is often troublesome to catch one out of a number 

 of fowls in a coop. To save time and labor in such a 

 case, I make use of an instrument like the one here 

 figured. A small rod, three fourths of an inch in diam- 



Fig. 61. HOOK FOR CATCHING POULTRY. 



eter and three or four feet long, is provided with a fer- 

 rule at one end. A stout, medium-sized wire, about one 

 foot long, is bent at one end, and the long end of the 

 wire inserted firmly into the ferruled end of the rod. 

 Then by reaching into the coop of fowls with the rod, 

 the one desired may be caught by the foot, and gently 



