Chicken Lice and Fleas. 433 



powdered sulphur (flour of sulphur) be freely sprinkled over 

 the floor and in the nests. 



For the birds themselves, the desire which fowls have of 

 dusting themselves — taking a dust bath, as it has been 

 termed — indicates the easy and natural remedy for relieving 

 them from fleas ; a heap of dry sand, or still better, of sifted 

 ashes, is the simplest and most effective remedy; fowls know 

 how to apply it themselves. As to more loathsome enemies 

 to their comfort, and even to that of chickens, in whose 

 tender down vermin will sometimes lodge, a good dusting of 

 pungent snuff, or flour of sulphur, at the roots of the down 

 or feathers, extending to the bare skin, will destroy them. 



