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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
February, 1913 
| KENNEL DEPARTMENT 
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The Paramount 
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The most healthful food you can give 
your dogs. Tempting, nourishing, easy to 
prepare. Always satisfies. Absolutely pure 
and free from chemicals. The favorite 
food of thousands of dogs. Used in the 
leading kennels throughout the world. 
Do not forget the name ‘ < 0-S-0-K-0. ,, 
Manufactured by 
Spillers & Bakers, Ltd., Cardiff, England 
Send for sample and Booklet No. 7 
H. A. Robinson & Co. 
Importers 
128 Water Street New York City 
FOR SALE — Belgian Hares, Lop-eared 
Rabbits, Poultry, Pigeons, Canaries, Parrots, 
Cats, Pet Dogs and all kinds of Pet Stock. 
On receipt of 10 cents we. mail highly illustrated de¬ 
scriptive catalogue, which gives full information of 49 
breeds of dogs, several breeds of cattle, sheep, swine, 
rabbits, ferrets; price list free. 
C. L. B. LANDIS Dept. 345 , Reading, Pa. 
BEAUTIFUL CATS AND 
FLUFFY KITTENS FOR SALE 
Short-haired Domestic, Rare Manx- 
Siamese and Abyssinian, Native long¬ 
haired and-pedigreed Persians. Ideal 
boarding place for Cats, Dogs and 
Birds. Resident Veterinarian. Write 
for beautifully Illustrated Catalogue 
and Sales lists. 
BLACK SHORT HAIRED CATTERY 
Oradell, N. J. 
AIREDALE TERRIERS 
The best all 'round dog and companion 
Our Terriers are blue ribbon winners at 
New York, Boston. Pittsburg, Chicago. 
Kansas City and other large shows. 
Puppies for Sale, $25 and Up. 
Champion Red Raven at Stud. 
Fee $25. The greatest living sire. 
Beautiful illustrated booklet for stamp 
ELMHURST FARM KENNELS 
St*. E. KANSAS CITY MO 
A Child’s Delight 
A SHETLAND PONY 
is an unceasing source of 
pleasure. A safe and ideal 
playmate. Makes the child 
strong and of robust health. 
Highest type—complete out- 
fi t s — here. Inexpensive. 
Satisfaction guaranteed. Write 
for illustrated catalog. 
BELLE MEADE FARM 
Bex 3. Markham. Vn 
G. D.T1LLEY 
Naturalist 
Beautiful Swans, Fancy Pheas¬ 
ants, Peafowl, Cranes, Storks, 
Ornamental Ducks and Geese, 
Flamingoes,Game and Cage Birds 
“Everything in the bird line from a 
Canary to an Ostrich " 
I am the oldest established and largest exclusive 
dealer in land and water birds in America and have on 
hand the most extensive stock in the United States. 
G. D. TILLEY, Box H, Darien, Connecticut 
Lice and Other Poultry Pests 
T HE hen’s chief enemy is the louse, and 
often this pest is present when least 
suspected. Its continued presence will 
surely result in decreased vitality, irritabil¬ 
ity, suspension of laying, abnormal appe¬ 
tite, and paves the way to disease. Most 
of the erratic doings of hens may be traced 
to lice. When setting hens fidget and 
leave their nests, it is often due to lice. 
I f the nests become unpopular with the 
laying members of the flock, lice are usual¬ 
ly the cause of the trouble. 
Chicks that appear droopy and peevish 
are often lice-infested. With young 
chicks results are fatal unless the trouble 
is remedied. Lice will work into the ears 
and nostrils of newly-hatched chicks, 
causing their death in a few hours. 
Examine the hens frequently for lice, 
looking under the wings and about the 
vent. Intense redness of the skin indicates 
their presence even when they are not 
readily seen. The lice which infest poul¬ 
try are very small, varying in color from 
white to reddish. 
Small black fleas are also a great tor¬ 
ture to fowls. 
Roughened legs with the skin twisted 
and gnarled into thick, irregular scales, 
are due to the perch-mite, a small, red, 
spidery creature. 
The lice make the hens their abiding 
place, and it is when they have bred to 
great numbers that they infest the nests 
and perches noticeably — a condition which 
soon develops in warm weather. With 
the perch-mite the case is a little different. 
The roost is their lurking place, the fowls 
being troubled at night. Therefore, while 
almost any drastic measures may be em¬ 
ployed to cleanse the building, care must 
be used in dealing with the hens them¬ 
selves. 
Pyrethrum powder or flowers of sul¬ 
phur puffed through the plumage of the 
bird with a bellows once a week will rid 
them of the pests. 
To prevent their being re-infested, the 
quarters must be carefully treated. A 
very effective louse-killer in the form of a 
paint to be applied to roosts, drop-boards 
and nests is made of equal parts of tar 
and kerosene with carbolic acid in the 
proportion of one pint of pine tar, one pint 
of kerosene and one tablespoonful of car¬ 
bolic acid. It is applied with a brush, and 
the abominable smell lasts a long time. 
The lice and other vermin cannot endure 
its fumes, and succumb while the fowls 
are roosting. 
It is wiser to treat setting hens before 
the advent of the chicks, but when this has 
been neglected you will have to give the 
little things attention at once. When the 
hatch has been completed, lay a small 
piece of board, painted on both sides with 
the preparation, in the bottom of the coop 
and close it for about ten minutes. After 
this time remove the board and ventilate. 
After several hours repeat this. 
Where the perch-mite is the only 
trouble, painting the roosts with kerosene 
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