1122 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



those about the poultry-house, .and coal-oil for those on the 

 fowls. Catch the fowls, and rub a little of the oil on their 

 heads, under the wings, and into the feathers on the under-part 

 of their bodies. Burn the old nesting, clean the nest-boxes 

 with boiling soap-suds, and then apply coal-oil to the cracks. 

 When the new nesting is put in use a little tobacco, sulphur, 

 or carbolic powder in the nest. 



Whitewash the whole of the inside of the house, taking care 

 to get it well into the cracks ; then shut up the house tight, 

 carry in a pan of coals, throw on a half pound or so of sulphur 

 and smoke out the lice that the whitewash and coal-oil do not 

 reach. Keep the house filled with sulphur smoke for an hour 

 or so, and then open and air before admitting the fowls. The 

 roosting perches should be carried out of doors, scrubbed with 

 an old broom and hot suds, and when dry wet with coal-oil. 

 Some three or four days after this general cleaning up, treat the 

 fowls and perches to another dose of coal-oil, and again fumi- 

 gate the house ; this will probably finish up all that escape the 

 first onslaught. The red mites are harder to get rid of than 

 the common chicken lice, but patience and plenty of whitewash, 

 coal-oil, and sulphur fumes will finally clear 'them out. 



After you have once cleaned the lice out, keep them out by 

 supplying the fowls with a dust bath in which there is a mix- 

 ture of dry unleached ashes, and occasionally drenching the 

 perches with coal oil. 



Lice on Chicks. For the large lice that infest the heads 

 of young chicks, anoint the head with sweet-oil and carbolic 

 acid one part of acid to one hundred of oil ; or if this be not 

 at hand, use whale-oil, bacon fat, or salted lard. As the chicks 

 grow older, if they are troubled with lice, use the mixture of 

 oil nnd carbolic acid under their wings and on the under part 

 of their bodies; or dust the mother hen at dusk with carbolic 

 powder, or with insect powder ; the chicks will get their share 

 from the feathers of the mother. Never use sulphur and lard, or 

 sulphur and coal-oil on young chickens ; it will generally kill 

 lice and chickens together. Coal-oil may be used on chicks 

 after they are three or four months old. 



