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much the same treatment is needed as for common lice. 
Clear the house, then spray well with kerosene or kero- 
sene emulsion, taking pains to reach the cracks; thor- 
oughly drench the roosts with hot water or kerosene, 
benzine or gasoline, whitewash the house, or dust with 
carbolated lime, and then daub the ends of the roosts, 
where they come in contact with supports, with coal 
tar, so the mites will have to cross it to reach the fowls. 
Dovexas’s Tontc Pouttry Mixture.—Take sulphate 
of iron, half a pound; sulphuric acid, 1 02; pure soft 
water, 2 gallons. Mix, and give to the fowls by adding 
one teaspoonful to each pint of their drinking water. 
ParRisH’s CHemicaL Foop (An English tonic).— 
Protosulphate of iron, 10 dr.; phosphate of soda, 12 dr.; 
phosphate of lime, 12 dr.; phosphoric acid, glacial, 20 
dr.; carbonate of soda, 2 scruples; carbonate of potassa, 
1 dr.; muriatic acid and water of ammonia, each a suffi- 
cient quantity ; powdered cochineal, 2 dr.; water suffi- 
‘cient to make 20 fluid ounces; sugar, 3 Ibs. troy; oil of 
orange, 10 minims. 
CHoLERA DisinFecTANT MrxTuRE.—Mix sulphuric 
acid, 8 ounces; pure soft water, 8 gallons. This dilute. 
Sulphuric acid is a good preparation whenever the houses 
or grounds need purifying after an infectious disease. 
