274 THE POULTRY-BOOK. 



On the same subject, Mr. Giles, of Providence, remarks : 

 " The best method that I have found to prevent the lice is to 

 keep their house clean, whitewashing spring and fall, having 

 the house well aired and lighted ; and once in six months close 

 the windows, procure an old iron pot, put into it six pounds of 

 roll brimstone, make a fourteen pound iron ball red hot, put the 

 ball into the brimstone, then fly, and close the door and every 

 other opening. Do this in the morning early, return at three 

 o'clock in the evening, throw open the doors and windows, and 

 let them remain through the night, and the work of destruction 

 is complete ; not a living vermin will you find in that house for 

 six months to come. When a hen comes off with her brood, 

 clean out the old nest, put in a new one ; take tobacco-leaves, 

 dry, and rub them to powder between your hands, then mix it 

 with the hay of your nest, and you will have added much to 

 the health of your poultry." 



Relative to which, Mr. Pedder, of the Boston Cultivator, says, 

 "If he will mix a little salt-petre with the roll brimstone, the 

 next time he fumigates his poultry-house, he will find that he 

 need not heat his fourteen pound iron ball ; for, by merely touch- 

 ing the mixture with a heated poker, his business will be as 

 effectually done, leaving ' no trace behind.' " 



