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should be separately treated. Kerosene injected into the nostrils 

 is good ; also camphorated sweet oil. Ten drops of coal oil or 

 kerosene added to two drops of water for a flock of twenty fowls 

 will often effect a cure. But when this remedy is applied, do not 

 attempt to prepare one of the flock for table use for three or four 

 weeks thereafter, as the entire carcass will be tainted with coal oil. 

 Important. — In treating- roup, be careful to remove any 

 discharge from the nostrils that may collect on the feathers under 

 the wings or on the breast. Be sure and protect the sick fowls 

 from all drafts and feed easily digested food. When the fowls 

 look stupid and droopy, feathers rough and no appetite, reduce 

 their food to even fasting. 



HEN LICE IN A HEN HOUSE AND ON HENS. 



When once hen lice get started they increase very rapidly 

 and become a perfect nuisance to the hens and the owner, and in 

 some cases they will spread to other buildings and get on the 

 stock. Hen lice are very small and have a reddish appearance. 



Treatment. — The first step to be taken to get rid of the hen 

 lice is to drive all the hens out of the hen house, close up the 

 windows and doors, put a pound of sulphur in a pot, put some 

 coals in it to start the sulphur burning, and keep it burning for 

 about hair a day. The fumes from the sulphur will go into all 

 the cracks and thoroughly fumigate the place and kil' the lice ; 

 • ' er this open the doors and windows and clean the place out 

 thoroughly and put plenty of hardwood ashes and coal dust in the 

 hen house for the hens to roll about in ; this kills the lice on the 

 hens. In the course of a week drive the hens out of the hen 

 house again and burn sulphur as you did before, this will rid you 

 entirely of the pest, and by watching the hens and giving them 

 plenty of ashes and coal dust to roll in, will keep the lice off them 

 after this. It is also a good plan to feed the hens lots of sulphur 

 and new milk, give every night, two tablespoonfuls of sulphur to 

 a quart of new milk, this would be about the proper dose for 

 twenty-five hens. The sulphur passing off through the pores in 

 the skin helps greatly to kill the lice. Whitewash the walls, 

 ceiling, roosts and nests of the hen house, and put clean straw in 

 the nests ; this will effect a complete cure. If the lice are in 

 other buildings treat just the same way as mentioned for a hen 

 house. This treatment for killing the hen lice will also kill the 



