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sifter. A ten-cent box with a sifter top may be 
bought at many drug stores. The hen should be 
grasped by the legs and held head downward while 
the powder is dusted into the fluff around the vent 
and under the wings, favorite haunts of the lice. 
The powder should be well worked into the fluff 
and the birds put back on the roosts. It is well to 
do this work by lantern light, so that the fowls will 
“stay put.” Special attention should be given the 
roosters, as they are not likely to dust themselves as 
thoroughly as the hens. 
A large proportion of the chicks which perish 
every season succumb to the ravages of lice. It 
often is difficult to make the amateur realize this 
fact, but it is a fact, nevertheless. When the chicks 
hatch, the head lice at once leave the mother hen 
for them, speedily exhausting their vitality. The 
body lice, too, accumulate rapidly. For the latter, 
powder dusted on the chicks and under the wings 
of the hen, where the chicks hover, will suffice. 
This powder will not exterminate the head lice, how- 
ever; a very little lard or proprietary ointment 
rubbed on the head of each chick is necessary in order 
to secure freedom from these pests. Several ap- 
plications of these insecticides while the chicks are 
