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Nebraska, not one of the minute vermin, the so-called 

 "little red spider lice," has been found on the perches 

 in the writer's fowl houses. Also the scaly leg parasite, 

 while not yet entirely eradicated, has been readily con- 

 trolled. But the large vermin, which cling to the 

 bodies of the adult fowls, have, in years past, proved 

 obstinate, unless, indeed, Persian insect powder was 

 applied in quantity too expensive for ordinary use. But 

 now, thanks to the discovery of the modern cheap liquid 

 lice killers, the bodies of the birds need no longer be the 

 hosts of these disgusting, creeping things. There is no 

 such thing as spontaneous generation of lice, as every 

 well informed person knows nowadays, and the goal we 

 propose as attainable is to eradicate entirely parasitic 

 vermin from a business stock of poultry, by thorough 

 and persistent quarantine and treatment of the new pur- 

 chased fowls before introduction to the breeding yards, 

 thus keeping the aforesaid pest from restocking. 



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