XI 



MEDICINES, DISINFECTANTS, AND INSEC- 

 TICIDES 



Household Remedies for Poultry — Packaged Supplies 

 — Cleansing, While Nature Repairs — Discharges and 

 Protrusions — A Spraying Paint — An Incubator Dis- 

 ease — " Always at It " 



It is far better not to need a medicine chest than to 

 provide the very best that could be thought out. But, 

 human nature being what we know it to be, we can 

 easily foresee that the average worker will not fail to 

 need medicines at times, even though the times be 

 infrequent. The poultry keeper who can learn to use 

 his household remedies will be in a measure less depend- 

 ent than one who buys medicines especially put up and 

 specifically offered to poultrymen. This is partly 

 because modern " specifics " are rather likely to be old 

 friends under new and strange names, with 50 per cent 

 to 100 per cent added to the price, — to pay, I judge, 

 for the making over. This means that kerosene, or 

 gasoline, made into Robinson Crusoe's Lice Paint with 

 the addition of something equally cheap, then canned, 

 may appear as a most valuable poultry supply at one 

 dollar or one dollar and a quarter a gallon. 



Or, take our somewhat intimate friend, tobacco dust ; 

 or perhaps plaster of Paris. Juggled and combined a 

 little, they come out in the open and claim to be one of 

 the necessities of the poultryman's existence, at 25 cents 

 or 50 cents for a little box holding it may be three or four 



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