758 DR^ CEASE'S RECIPES. 



poultry house before applying the wash. The carbolic acid is, no dcubt, u 

 effectual as the soap and kerosene, and may be used, if preferred, instead o f 

 the first above. The item was given in answer to an inquiry by 0. Kellogg, 

 of Bradford Co., Pa., whose poultry was infested with lice, and wanted to 

 know how to get rid of them. The editor says : 



" Take out of the house every perch, nest-box, or movable thing; remove? 

 all battens, cleats, or anything whereby a crevice is made, so that the inside ii 

 smooth. Then make a whitewash of fresh hme, into which put one ounce of 

 carbolic acid to a pailful. Wash the house thoroughly with this. Then wash 

 the out&ide. Then smear the perches with a mixture of lard and kerosene, 

 putting it on thick, so that when the fowls roost they will get some of it on 

 their feathers. Also, put scmie of it on each fowl, under the wings. This 

 will clear the house, and the hens will clear themselvea, if no recruita are fiu:- 

 nished from the house. 



" In a month, or less, if there is occasion, wash the house again, and 

 grease the rooets ; take care to fill all holes and cracks in the poles. It would 

 be well to pass the poles through a fire made of straw, exposing them to the 

 flame, before greasing them." 



3. liio© on the Poultry, an Ointment or Grease ft)r.— If there 

 are any lice on the poultry themselves, besides niakiog a clean job of the 

 house by on« of the above plans, aanoint the necks and heads, if any are to be 

 seen there, and imder the wings, around the "vent," and inside the thighs, 

 legs, etc., every place where the feathers are not thick, with lard pretty well 

 thickened with "flowers" (fine) sulphur, one ounce at least to one pound of 

 lard. Sulphur is considered, with grease, to be death to lice, but be this as it 

 may, the lice cannot crawl on the poles nor slata, if they are xised as freely as 

 they ought to be, if a good coat of the ointnaent is smeared over them ; and I 

 can see no reason why some keroeene, say two table-^poonfula to each pound 

 of lard, may not be added, with the sulphur ointment for the poultry, as well 

 as for the rooets, etc. 



If poultry is badly corered with lice, soeac insect powder may be dusted 

 among the feathers, not much will be needed, using the bellonrs as used for 

 " bugs " about the bedsteads. At all events, keep the poultry free from lice, 

 else do not keep poultry. If no insect powder is at hand, dust sulphur among 

 the feathers, it will do equally well, at least many claim this to be " all-suffi- 

 ^sicnt," It is roooonmendfid in the next item below by the lovia Siaie B£gister, 



L Tto Prevent Lioe Upon Setting Hens.— Which says that two or 

 three leaves of tobacco placed in the nest of a setting hen, then plachag the 

 eggs upon them, will kiU or drive off any lice which may be upon the hen, 

 and prevent them from getting upon them, which tiiey frequently do while 

 setting, ercn if not upon them at the commencement ; and 



n. Sulphur sprinkled among the feathers, when the tobacco cannot be 

 olAaiaed, is good to destroy lice on the fowls, and to keep them at a distance. 

 nL Again , another writer says, to put a table-spoonful of sulphur in 

 the neet of a hen or turkey to be "set," will destroy all lice upon the fowls, 

 and «Jso prevent them from getting into the nest and thus infesting the 

 '*se*^j:.'* This should not be used too freely, lest it may injure the your<> 



