POULTRY DISEASES 
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Figure 3.— Goniodes stylifer, (from a turkey), ventral view; a, mouth parts; 
mtennae, c, leg’s, provided with hooklets on the free extremity of the last 
merits. To the right of the head is a line indicating the actual size of the 
se. 
Figure 4.—An egg of the turkey louse. The egg is cemented to the barb of 
feather at a. 
Figure 5.— L-ipeurus infuscatus, (from a hen), female; a, mouth parts; b, ab- 
len. 
To find the lice, part the feathers; the lice will be found running over 
skin or bases of the feathers. A favorite location for the lice is under 
wings where the temperature is warmer, although they may be found 
any part of the body. 
Lice may be found at all seasons of the year, but are more common in 
hotter months of July and August. In these months, conditions are more 
Drable to their propagation. 
TREATMENT OF INFESTED BIRDS AND ERADICATION OF LICE.— 
s chickens should be dusted with insect powder (pyrethrum) or pyrethrum 
sulphur equal parts, or a combination of these with tobacco dust, which 
be secured from a tobacco factory. This powder can best be dusted 
>ng the feathers by aid of a powder gun, which can be secured at a drug 
•e. It can also be placed in the dusting places. In ridding the birds of 
, it will be well to keep in mind that frequent dusting with powder will 
lecessary, as the eggs or nits are not all likely to be killed by the powder. 
>ther means of ridding chickens of lice is to dip them in a five per cent 
ition of Creolin, Kreso dip, or the same per cent of Zenoleum. 
After the flock has been freed from lice, care should be exercised that 
infestation is not brought about by the introduction of lousy birds. The 
house in which lousy birds are located should be thoroughly and fre- 
ntly cleaned and the walls whitewashed. The whitewash should contain 
t some parasiticide as carbolic acid five per cent, creolin five per cent, or 
•osive sublimate one part to a thousand. The roosts should be scrubbed 
l boiling water, and after drying in the sun, should be saturated with 
)sene. If the hen house be tightly closed and thoroughly fumigated with 
thur, it will aid in destroying lice or other parasites that may be in the 
:ks and crevices and difficult to reach with the whitewash. The litter 
straw should be removed from the nests and burned, and the nests should 
lisinfected and new straw provided. Before refilling with straw, an inch 
laked lime should be placed in the bottom. 
