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moistening her feathers and skin until she weans her chickens. 



When using this method you don't have to worry about lice 

 on your young chickens. After you take the hen from them, 

 they should be dusted in a tumbling barrel once a month with 

 the same powder you use on the old fowls. When the chicks 

 are full grown and have their new plumage, it would be a little 

 risky to put them in the tumbling barrel, as they might break 

 a wing feather and this would hurt them for show purposes. 

 So during this time it would be safer to dust your show spec- 

 imens by hand. 



For head and throat lice, put a few drops of oil of sassa- 

 frass on a small sponge and moisten the feathers well on top 

 of the head and under the throat, and you will rid your chick- 

 ens of lice in these parts. 



At least ten days before your chickens are hatched, you 

 should thoroughly clean your brood coops and spray them all 

 over with the same liquid lice paint that you use in your large 

 hen houses. After you have sprayed these coops, shut them 

 up tight to hold the fumes in the coop and let it penetrate 

 through the wood. The day before you put the hens and 

 chicks in the coop, open the door so it can get aired out well. 



I use peat moss for litter as you never get any bad odor 

 from the droppings when this is used. It should be saved, es- 

 pecially if you have a garden, for it makes the best fertilizer 

 for all kinds of crops. 



Your brood coops should be cleaned thoroughly once a 

 week, and once a month the litter should be changed and the 

 coops sprayed all over inside. You won't be bothered very 

 much with lice and mites if you follow this method. 



POULTRY DISEASES. 



It is not my purpose to explain in detail the various diseases 

 of poultry, but I will give you my method of treating a few 



