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food. However, the birds will immediately reinfect themselves if the 

 yards and houses are not cleaned up and disinfected at the same time. 

 To kill the eggs in the manure it should be treated with unslaked 

 lime. The drinking fountains must be so built that the birds cannot 

 contaminate the water with their feet. One of the best methods is to 

 move the birds after they have received the Areca nut to fresh soil 

 and to crop the old yards for one year to insure the destruction of 

 the eggs. 



Wood Ashes for Worms. 



How much wood ashes would you give to a hundred hens in the mash 

 for worms? 



A good-sized fire-shovel full of sifted ashes, and if the wood 

 is oak, so much the better. Oak is the best wood for that purpose; 

 some wood ashes have very little value. 



Chicken Tape Worms. 



I find a flat white ivorm nearly two inches long in the droppings of 

 my six months chickens. 



It is a tapeworm and does not hurt the chickens except by 

 stealing their food. Feed the chickens all the chopped garlic and 

 pumpkin seeds they will eat after letting them fast twenty-four hours. 

 Chopped garlic bulbs clean intestinal worms out quickly except in 

 serious cases, when a vermifuge is necessary. Garlic tops are not so 

 dependable because not so strong, but usually clean out incipient 

 infections if fed once in two weeks or a month. Garlic taints the 

 eggs of some hens more than others and should be fed only for 

 worms. Chopped or ground pumpkin seed are best for tape worms in 

 laying hens. 



Moth Balls Only a Help. 



Is it true that if I bore holes every eight inches in my chicken roosts 

 and insert moth balls, that the chickens will be kept entirely free of vermin? 



This plan will help to prevent the fowls and houses from becoming 

 infested with vermin or to reduce the number, but it will not prove to 

 be a cure-all for this trouble. The moth balls will produce no bad 

 effect on the fowls. In addition to the proposed plan the roosts 

 should be painted with some commercial lice paint or with stove 

 distillate to which has been added about ten per cent of crude carbolic 

 acid or other germicide. Still greater benefit can be obtained by 

 spraying the entire interior of the poultry house. 



Ointment for Lice. 



Give an ointment for lice and how to use it? 



The ointment or salve recommended is mercurial ointment, U. S. 

 strength. Mix the ointment with equal weight good tallow or lard 

 and rub a piece the size of a pea below the vent; rub well into the skin. 



