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Treatment. Wash the legs thoroughly with castile soap 

 and water, and apply sulphur and lard, working it under 

 the scales. Stoddaird's Poultry Ointment is convenient 

 and reliable. 



Lice — Symptoms. General appearance of loss of health. 

 Examine the heads, under the wings, and about the 

 anus. You will be likely to find them. 



Treatment. ist, of the fowls : Persian Insect Powder, 

 powdered sulphur, carbolic powder and snuff may be 

 blown or worked into the plumage. An ointment of 

 sulphur, lard and kerosene may be applied to adult 

 fowls, but beware of applying it to chicks. -I once gave 

 a thorough application of sulphur and lard to some White 

 Leghorn chicks about a month old, and every one of 

 them died within three or four days'. 



2d, of the houses, etc. : Remove the straw of the 

 nests, apply kerosene thoroughly to every spot which 

 could harbor a louse ; be thorough, and you will remove 

 the evil. 



Red Mites. Treatment similar to the above ; be 

 thorough. 



These are some of the more common and more 

 troublesome diseases which afifect poultry. You will find 

 these and others, with their remedies, more thoroughly 

 discussed in " Poultry Diseases," by H. H. Stoddard, a 

 little- work which every poultryman ought to possess. 

 We close this branch of our subject with 



A FEW USEFUL RECIPES. 



Douglass' Mixture. Copperas, one pound, dissolved in 

 two gallons of water ; then add, stirring well, one ounce 



