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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
Lice. 
There should be no excuse for infestment by these parasites. They 
will sometimes make their appearance on new fowls, and setting hens 
will sometimes contract them. They are of two kinds : the common hen 
louse, and minute “hen spider,” so-called. Tho- latter very minuto and 
infesting every part of the house, and often the horse stables, if tho hena 
are allowed to run there. To rid the house, take out every movable art- 
icle and wash thoroughly with carbolic acid and water, or with the ammo- 
niacal water of gas factories, which is cheap. Wash also every portion of 
the house with the same. Or, fumigate by closing every crevice, and 
burning in an iron pot containing a burning hot stone, half the size of a 
man’s head, a pound of roll brimstone, keeping the house closed two or 
three hours. Then wash every part of the house with lime-wash in which 
a pound of potash has been dissolved to e&ch quart of water used in thin- 
ning the wash. Wash also the furniture, nests, perches and all else with 
the potash solution, one pound to a quart of water. Put back the furni- 
ture, place fresh hay in the boxes, plenty of dust baths near, and the lice 
will leave the fowls and die. In case the stable becomes infested, or 
other places that may not be fumigated, wash with the potash solution, 
or the lime-wash, containing one part in twenty of carbolic acid. 
