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building will be filled with enough fumes to darken 

 it. The building should be kept tightly closed for 24 hr. 



2. The interior of the house should be dusted with 

 dry air-slaked lime. To do this a person should take 

 a bucket, bag, or pailful of the fine lime and start at 

 the end of the house farthest from the door, and walk 

 slowly backwards toward the door, scattering the lime 

 with the right hand in the same way that seed is sown. 

 The lime should be thrown against the ceiling, side 

 walls, nest boxes, roosting places, etc. The air should 

 be filled with a cloud of lime dust. This dust will 

 settle gradually into every crack and crevice of the 

 house. While the lime dust is being scattered, the house 

 should be closed as tightly as possible. About a half 

 bushel of lime dust will answer for a poultry house 20 

 ft. wide and 40 to 50 ft. long. A thin cloth that the 

 operator can see through should be tied over the eyes, 

 nose, and mouth to prevent the lime dust from getting 

 into them. Any parasites that may have escaped the 

 fumes of the sulphur or tobacco will more than likely 

 be killed by the lime dust. The house should be 

 closed again for 24 hr. to allow the lime dust to settle 

 thoroughly. 



3. The house should then be brushed or swept clean. 

 The ceiling, walls, floor, and every appliance and fixture 

 inside the house should be carefully brushed. No dust 

 or dirt should be left. The straw from the nest boxes, 

 and the straw and dirt from the floor should be taken 

 outside, saturated with kerosene, and burned. After 

 all that will burn has been burned, the rest should be 

 buried deep in the ground. 



4. The house should be thoroughly sprayed both 

 inside and out with one of the liquid insecticides 

 described. Creosote and liquid lice killer are to be 

 preferred, in the order named. The liquid insecticide 

 applied at this time should be allowed to dry thoroughly. 



5. A second application of the liquid insecticide 

 should be made to the interior of the house, the nest 

 boxes, and roosting poles before the fowls are allowed 



