TURKEY RAISING 



turkeys as it does not seem to cause a skin irritation or to 

 injure the feathers. Sometimes after dusting, the fowls 

 may sneeze and breathe hard but this soon wears off. 

 Care should be taken to see that the sodium fluoride is not 

 left around where the fowls could get it in their food or 

 water, as it is poisonous. 



Care should also be taken by the person using the 

 sodium fluoride to prevent it from getting and staying 

 on the hands or body for any length of time as it may 

 have an irritating or burning effect on the skin. It is for 

 this reason that it is better to put the fowls to be treated 

 on a table rather than to hold them on the lap. Sodium 

 fluoride may be used on young turkeys as well as on the 

 mature fowls without danger of bad results. In using it 

 on the young fowls, however, it is best that it be used in 

 the morning instead of just before they go to roost. 

 Where the mother turkey has been properly dusted it is 

 unnecessary to use more than a couple of pinches on each 

 poult, one scattered on the neck and top of the head and 

 throat and the other on the back and wings and below 

 the vent. 



In addition to sodium fluoride any good commercial in- 

 sect powder can be used with good results. A home-made 

 powder of this sort which is effective is composed of 3 

 parts gasoline, i part crude carbolic acid, into which plas- 

 ter of paris is stirred until it blots up all the liquid and 

 forms a dry powder. The powder should be kept in a 

 tight can or bottle in order to preserve its strength. 



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