HINTS ABOUT MANAGEMENT. 11? 
PREVENTION AGAINST LICE, 
Almost all poultry are lousy, more or less. ‘‘ A. B.” 
says: good arrangements for dusting will always keep the 
lice in check. ‘T'he small hen louse moves along the 
roosts and sides of the building several feet, and some- 
times annoys cattle and horses, but the trouble to them is 
quite temporary. Ifthe fowls are free from them, they 
will leave other stock at once. Roosts ought always to be 
removable, so that they can be scraped and washed with 
kerosene. I find kerosene or crude petroleum an excel- 
lent addition to whitewash. This treatment, with a good 
dusting-box for the fowls, in which there may be occa- 
sionally thrown a pailful of wood ashes and a pound of 
flowers of sulphur, will keep lice effectually in check. 
Horses and cattle in adjoining apartments, with only 
loose board partitions separating them from the poultry-- 
house, will not be seriously troubled by the vermin. 
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A POULTRYMAN’S CROOK. 
J. L, Cunningham, Gonzales Co., Texas, writes us: 
It is often troublesome to catch one out of a number 
of fowls in a coop. To save time and labor in such a 
case, I make use of an instrument like the one here 
figured. A small rod, three fourths of an inch in diam- 
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Fig. 61.—HooK FOR CATCHING POULTRY. 
eter and three or four feet long, is provided with a fer- 
rule at one end. A stout, medium-sized wire, about one 
foot long, is bent at one end, and the long end of the 
wire inserted firmly into the ferruled end of the rod. 
Then by reaching into the coop of fowls with the rod, 
the one desired may be caught by the foot, and gently 
