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over the animals, as well as over carpets, rugs, etc., on which 

 they have lain ; or wash with the yolks of eggs and a teaspoon- 

 ful of oil of turpentine to each egg ; or a mixture of an ounce 

 of oil of anise seed and ten ounces olive-oil may be rubbed over 

 the body and washed off with soap six hours later. Sprinkle 



Fig. 56.— Cat Flea. Enlarged. — Vekkill. 



the sail where the animals roll with quicklime, carbolic acid or 

 petroleum ; deluge kennels and roosts with boiling water, and 

 afterwards paint the cracks wuth oil of turpentine ; dip mats or 

 rugs in boiling water, and litter the buildings with fresh pine 

 shavings. 



LICE. 



These are degraded wingless hemipterous insects. There 

 are two kinds : blood-suckers (Juematopinus), with narrow head 

 and long trunk-like sucking tube ; and bird-lice {trichodectes), 

 with very large, broad head, and no sucking tube, but biting 

 jaws. 



Of the blood-suckers there is one species each for : — horse and 

 ass ; horse and ox:; ox ; goat ; swine, and dog, and ferret. 



Qi bird-lice there is a species each for : — horse and ass; ox 

 and ass ; sheep ; goat ; dog ; cat ; duck and goose ; two for 

 the peacock ; three for the turkey ; four for the pigeon ; and 

 five for the hen. 



