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the best agents to dust over tlie animals as well as over 

 carpets, rugs, etc., on wliich they have lain ; or wash with 

 the yolks of eggs and a teaspoonful of oil of turpentine to 

 each egg ; or a mixture of an ounce of oil of anise-seed and 

 ten ounces ohve-oil may be rubbed over the body and 

 washed off with soap six hourswlater. Sprinkle the soil 



Fig. 56. 



Fig. 56 — Cat Flea. Enlarged. — ^Verrill. 



where the animals roll with quicklime, carbohc acid, or 

 petroleum ; deluge kennels and roosts with boiling water 

 and afterward paint the cracks with oil of turpentine ; dip 

 mats or rugs in boiling water, and litter the buildings with 

 fresh pine shavings. 



LICE. 



These are degraded wingless hemipterous insects. 

 There are two kinds : Uood-sucJcers (hcematopimcs), with 

 narrow head and long trunk-like sucking tube ; arid bird- 

 lice (trichodectes), \vith very large, broad head, and no 

 sucking tube, but biting jaws. 



Of the bhod-suckers there is one species each for : — 

 horse and ass ; horse and ox ; ox ; goat ; swine, and dog 

 and ferret. 



Of bird-lice there is a species each for : — horse and ass ; 

 ox and ass ; sheep ; goat ; dog ; cat ; duck, and goose ; 

 two for the peacock ; three for the turkey ; four for the 

 pigeon ; and five for the hen. 



