LICE. 133 



This is the ordinary dictate of humanity. 

 As far as I. can learn, this disease rarely, if 

 ever, appears in our climate. 



Lice are one of the most common annoy- 

 ances of poultry, although they may be said 

 to be common to them at all times. Three 

 species are described on the common fowl. 

 Their abundance is generally caused by 

 want of cleanliness or spare feed. Fowls 

 rid themselves of lice by dusting themselves 

 in sand or ashes, and this suggests the ap- 

 propriate remedy. Frequent whitewashing 

 the hen-house will prevent their great in- 

 crease. Some odd remedies have been sug- 

 gested, such as rubbing lard under the 

 wings and on the rump, rubbing the fowl 

 with water in which potato-skins have been 

 boiled, and even pulling out a few feathers 

 from the ends of the wings. I have known 

 a whole poultry-yard to be rid of lice in a 

 short time by rubbing on the sides of every 

 fowl a little lard into which a small quantity 

 of turpentine had been incorporated. A 

 highly-recommended remedy is to mix up 

 sulphur with Indian rneal and water, in the 



