tobacco dust, one pound air-slacked lime, one-half pound naptha- 

 lene mix well together. This is sure death to hen lice, plant 

 lice, lice on cattle, sheep ticks, bed bugs, ants, moths, etc. 



Lice paint is a liquid preparation, and is used for painting 

 roosts, nests, etc. 



The fumes penetrate the feathers of the bird and kill the lice. 

 Lee's Lice Killer and Cyphers Surekil Lice Paint are highly 

 recommended. A good lice paint is made by dissolving one 

 pound napthalene flakes in one gallon kerosene oil. 



Red mites make their home on the underside of the roosts and 

 in cracks and crevices adjacent. They are quiet by day, but by 

 night come forth to suck the life blood of their victims. The 

 kerosene treatment, which I have already described, is sure death 

 to red mites, and it is folly not to exterminate them. 



TO RID A HOUSE OF VERMIN. 

 Sometimes through carelessness or neglect a house becomes 

 infested with vermin, and then radical measures are necessary. 

 In the first place the house should be thoroughly fumigated. 

 Close every door and window, and see that there are no cracks 

 or apertures to admit air. Burn a pound of sulphur for every 100 

 .square feet of floor space in the house: thus a house 10x10 will 

 require one pound of sulphur; one 20x10 two pounds, 

 one 30x10 three pounds, and so on. The sulphur must be 

 burned in iron vessels, which must be set on gravel or sand, 

 so that there can be no danger from fire.. Into each vessel put 

 a handful of carpenter's shavings, saturated with kerosene, and 

 upon these sprinkle the sulphur. Place the vessels in position, 

 apply a match to the shavings, and hastily leave the house, clos- 

 ing the door behind you. Do not open the house again for five 

 hours, when every door and window should be thrown wide open. 

 In case you feel any anxiety about fire, you can look in through 

 a window once in a while to see that everything is going well. 



After the fumes of sulphur have been driven out, with a hand 

 sprayer go through the house sending a spray of kerosene 

 everywhere. These sprayers can be bought for half a dollar 

 each, will last for years, and are simply invaluable. All the time 

 you have been at work the hens have been in the yard outside, 

 without food, and are now anxious to return to their home. Let 

 them in, one by one, and as each enters catch her and dust her 

 well with some good insecticide. 



