REQUISITES FOR HEALTH 



holding half as much. A small barrel and a tub or any water-tight vessel 

 will answer very well. 



1, Slake the lime in the barrel, using two or three gallons of water for 

 two pecks of lime. 2. Cover the barrel. 3. Dissolve the salt in water, 

 strain the brine and add it to the slaked lime in the barrel. 4. Boil the rice 

 flour for ten minutes in a small quantity of water. 5. Dissolve the glue in a 

 double cooker or water bath and avoid scorching. 6. In the tub mix the 

 whiting with about five gallons of hot water. 7. Add to the whiting mix- 

 txu-e in tub the boiled rice and dissolved glue. Mix thoroughly. 8. Pour 

 mixture in tub into the barrel containing slaked lime, stir well until thor- 

 oughly mixed. 9. Cover barrel to protect from dirt and let whitewash 

 stand for a few days, when it will be ready for use. 10. This whitewash 

 shoidd be applied hot if best results are to be obtained. Heat it in any ket- 

 tle or other metal vessel on a stove or suspended over a fire. 



Fifth. Before allowing the fowls to return to the clean house they them- 

 selves should be made clean by a thorough treatment for lice. It is a good 

 plan to go over them with some good insect powder or powdered sulphur 

 before removing them from the house and again on putting them back. 

 Dust the powdec well into the feathers of every one and allow no sickly 

 birds to enter the clean house. 



A first class lice powder can be made by mixing 5 parts ot Napthalene 

 flakes with 95 parts of some ^ood c|irrier such as a cheap talcum powder that, 

 can be purchased for 5 to 10 cents q pound. 



Sixth. Remove and destroy all wooden feed troughs, and provide new ones. 

 If these are made of galvanized iron they can be kept clean with little trouble. 

 Galvanized or earthen ware drinking vessels must be thoroughly cleaned by 

 scalding and scouring. If the old ones are not in perfect condition it is much 

 better to destroy them and to provide new. 



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