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DEATH TO CHICKEN LICE. 
I use bisulphide of carbon in preference to anything else 
for killing chicken lice. I have used it four years, and I think 
it the best thing yet discovered for that purpose. Before I used 
it, my chicken house was literally alive with mites, but in 24 
hours after I applied' the carbon, 1 could not find one. I fill 
several three or four-ounce vials one-half full of the carbon, have 
them uncorked, and tie a string to the neck of each long enough 
to let it hang from 12 to 20 inches below the perches. I have 
enough vials to hang about six to eight feet apart, and refill 
the vials about every week or as often as the stuff evaporates. 
Canby, Oregon. J. F. D. 
Fig. g. Sarcopsylla gal/inacea : Female— enlarged. 
(From drawings by Packard.) 
REMEDY FOR TEXAS FLEAS. 
[Southern Cult eator, Page 506, October, 1894.'] 
. Please advise me what will rid mules, chickens, etc., of Texas 
fleas. — A. C. F., Jr., Montezuma, Ga. 
Answer. — Mr. Carl Niederer, of Winter Haven, Fla., gives us 
his experience with fleas, which may prove of advantage to our 
inquirer. Mr. Niederer writes that all last winter he was hotl ered 
with chicken fleas. Iu vain he tried insect powder, gas lime, boiling 
water, kerosene, potash, salt and carbolic acid mixed with lard. The 
fleas multiplied until they reached the dwelling house, 12 j feet 
away from the chicken house. Reading in the bulletin of an agri- 
cultural experiment station; a recommendation of Bisulfide of Car- 
bon, and noting the advertisement of Mr. E. R. Taylor, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, in The Cultivator, he sent on for twenty pounds of 
Taylor's Carbon Bisulfide. He put in about an ounce of the Bisul- 
fide in each of eight bottles, and leaving them uncorked, huug them 
on the roost. There was no perceptible effect the first week. The 
second week Mr. Niederer filled the bottles about one-third full, and 
let it evaporate. At the end of the week the effect was beginning to 
show, and at the end of the third week the fleas were all gone. 
While all other remedies failed, the Bisulfide was a complete success. 
