RURAL VETERINARY SECRETS 211 



when the poultry roosted with them. The removal of the poultry and 

 the use of insect powder, if in winter, or the creolin lotion in summer, 

 together with the plentiful use of kerosene or hot lime wash, will over- 

 come the trouble. Use sulphur lavishly or insect powder in the nests. 

 Hen houses should be thoroughly treated twice yearly with hot lime 

 wash, the roosts and nests being plentifully dowsed with kerosene. A 

 teaspoonful of corrosive sublimate to each bucket of wash will kill and 

 keep lice out of the henhouse. 



