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tolhe bottom of the windpipe, and withdraw a? before. If the feather be dip' 

 ped in kerosene, turpentine, or a weak solution of carbolic acid, sucli worms as 

 are not caught wilt be killed, and immediately sneezed up by the chicken. An- 

 other method is to fumigate with sulphur or carbolic acid, to accomplish which, 

 place a hot brick in the bottom of a box, cover it with a board having an inch 

 augur-hole in the centre (the board is to prevent burning the chickens' feet), and 

 throngh this augur-hole drop upon the hot brick a teaspoonful of flowers of 

 sulphur, or a few drops of carbolic acid; put in the chickens, and cover theboz 

 for a few seconds. This must be done very carefully, «r the chicks as well as 

 worms will be kUled. Still another method, recommended by correspondents of 

 the PouU/ry World, is to confine the chickens in a small box, with a coarse cotton 

 or linen cloth stretched over the top. Upon this cloth.plaoe a quantity of finely 

 pulverized lime, and with a stick gently tap the cloth, so that the lime-dust will 

 sift through. This will cause the birds to sneeze, and the worms will be thrown 

 up in a slimy mass, without any danger of any being driven further down. What- 

 ever remedy is adopted, it is essential that all the worms should be burnt, as well 

 as all chicks that may die of the disease, as even if the worms themselves are 

 killed, their eggs may not be, and will go on propagating the evil. 



Next to gapes, lice are perhaps the most to be dreaded of Mae foes of the young 

 chick ; and to keep these pests in check requires constant vigilSnce. Prevention 

 is emphatically the remedy here. The coops should be whitewashed, inside and 

 out, and all parts of the buildings, nest-boxes, etc., used by the fowls should be 

 thoroughly whitewashed, or washed with water in which tobacco stems have 

 been steeped, with petroleum, or dilute carbolic acid, and the oftener this is 

 done the better. If, in spite of precautions, the lice make their appearance, 

 then grease the hen on the back and under the wings with a mixture of lard and 

 kerosene, using only enough of the latter to make the grease run easily, and be- 

 ing careful to keep it out of the eyes ; or, what is better, apply pyrethrum, or 

 Persian insect powder, for sale at all drug stores, and which, when fresh and 

 pure, is a certain remedy for these pests. It is applied by blowing jt up under 

 the feathers by means of a small beUows which should accompany each package. 

 Unless the lice are very bad it will not be necessary to grease chicks which the 

 hen is brooding, as they will get enough from her. 



Eats sometimes give great trouble in the poultry-yard, carrying ofE^ chickens of 

 two and three months of age in large numbers. When they go at this they gen- 

 erally have a hiding place under some pile of rubbish to which they drag the 

 chickens to eat them. If this place can be found, and the partly eaten chickens 

 dusted with strychnine, it may abate the evil, but the surest riddance will be to 

 organize a rat hunt and clean out the whole premises. 



Hawks are sometimes very troublesome, and very difSoult to manage. In such 

 cases the following device, communicated to Fcmn and Fireside by a corre- 

 spondent from Talbot county, Georgia, would certainly be worth a trial : "Place 

 a live chicken in a large rat-trap, bird-cage, or lattice-box, fasten a steel trap to 

 the top of the box or cage, and elevate them upon a pole or high stump where 

 the chicken can be distinctly seen by the hawk. If properly arranged, you may 

 expect to find his hawkship caught in the snare." 



