PROGRESSIVE POULTRY RAISING 



thing it will be found easiest and the least expensive to 

 isolate individual ailing birds and except in the case of 

 slight ailments which quickly recover, kill and burn them. 

 Where one is so unfortunate as to have an epidemic make 

 its appearance, the veterinarian should be called or fowls 

 that are just coming down with the disease should be 

 shipped to the State Experiment Station for examination 

 and diagnosis. 



+ In the control of lice sodium fluorid 



Lice and is nearly 100 per cent efficient. It is 



Mites easily the best louse killer to be ob- 



tained. It can usually be secured 

 from the local drug store and comes in the form of a white 

 powder. It may be applied in two forms, as a dust or as 

 a dip. Where applied as a dust, small pinches of it should 

 be worked into the feathers on the head, neck, back, 

 breast, under the wings and below the vent. During the 

 warm weather it is very much quicker and much more 

 effective to dip the fowls. The solution is colorless and 

 does not stain the feathers. Where the dipping is done 

 on a warm, quiet, sunny day the birds dry out quickly 

 and no ill effects follow. 



The following is quoted from Farmers* Bulletin 80 1 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture : 



"In using the dipping method all that is necessary is a 

 supply of tepid water and a tub. If two persons are to 

 dip at the same time it is advisable to use a large tub. 

 The water should be measured into the tub and three- 

 fourths to one ounce of commercial or two-thirds of an 

 ounce of chemically pure sodium fluorid added to each 

 gallon of water. It is readily dissolved by stirring. The 

 tub should be filled to within 6 or 8 inches of the top, 

 and as the amount of solution is lowered through dipping 

 numbers of fowls, water with the proper proportion of 

 sodium fluorid dissolved should be added from time to 

 time. 



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