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HOMEMADE LICE POWDER. 



"We do not believe there is any lice powder which is so cheap and 

 effective as that which you can make in your own home. It is known 

 as the Cornell Lice Powder, and was invented by Mr. R. C. Lawry 

 of Pacific, Mo., while he was a professor in the poultry department 

 of Cornell University. The powder is made in the following way: 



Take three parts gasoline and one part crude carbolic acid. 



Use nothing except the ninety or ninety-five per cent carbolic 

 acid, as the weaker acids will not do. 



Mix these together and add enough plaster of paris to take up 

 all the moisture. Add only a little at a time and keep stirring so that 

 the liquid will be uniformly distributed through the plaster paris. 

 When you have finished, it should be a dry, pinkish brown powder. 

 Dust this into the feathers, especially under the wings and in the 

 fluff below the vent, but be very careful not to get any in the vent. 



LICE OINTMENT. 



We have never found any lice powder to be so effective and satis- 

 factory as a blue ointment, made as follows : 

 Mercury, fifty parts. 

 Lard, twenty-five parts. 

 Suet, twenty-three parts. 

 Oleate of mercury, two parts. 



This was first recommended to us by Prof. W. R. Graham of 

 Guelph, Canada. We have recommended it to hundreds of people, and 

 all who have tried it, pronounce it to be very effect- 

 ive. Turkey breeders use it to destroy lice on poults, 

 and by rubbing just a little on the fluff of a hen with 

 young chicks, it will also destroy the lice on the 

 chicks. The advantage of this ointment over powder 

 is this : If you use powder, you only kill the lice on 

 the bird at that time, and there is nearly always a lot 

 of "nits" or eggs on the feathers which hatch in 

 about ten days afterward to start a new generation 

 of lice. But by using this ointment, it destroys the 

 specimen of chick- "nits" also, and if any are hatched, enough of the 

 microscope. under ointment remains on the feathers to kill them. You 

 also run no risk of killing the hen by getting it in the 

 vent, as with the powder. 



We render the suet and melt the lard. After this is cooled, but 

 before it becomes hardened, we pour in the mercury and oleate of 

 mercury, and with an ordinary table fork, we stir and stir this mix- 

 ture until the entire mass becomes thoroughly mixed and turns blue. 

 If you find it is going to be too stiff, add a little glycerine. See that 

 it is well stirred. 



We take a little of this blue ointment on the end of the finger 

 and rub it well into the skin in the fluff just below the vent. We are 

 not bothered with lice again for sometime. To get the right pro- 

 portions, we weigh all the ingredients. 



