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Show PO.U UT R Y 1 Imiii iihi .i ii.i u W II mil" mm mi I J ii I I .ill ,, . I THE DUST BATIJ. The dust bath to the fowl is what ; the wash bowl is to the individual. With the dust bath the, hen cleans ' her body. . She comes as regularly to dust herself as she docs to feed, in' stinct teaching her that it is the besV '. method for ridding herself of lice. If she has fr.ee range where there is plowed ground or soft caxth she will find a place to dust herself, but if I confined) to pens she must be provided I with a place and material wherewith k to dust herself. Some provide ashes of cither, hard or soft coal, some use, l dry road dut. These arc all good, ! though some object to the road dust because it may be filthy, but this is not necessarily so. We have noticed f that the hen has a preference for a , moist earth rather than for a perfectly ' dry lingrcdicnt. There is nothing as i good as a deodorizer as mother earth. ' Therefore see that the yardls arc spaded up quite frequently so that the hctiSj may wallow in this dirt, or go to a plowed field and haul a load of fresh earth to the poultry yard. If you will sec that -the hen has proper material wherewith to clean henselj, she will- avail -herself of the means, and thus solve, in grcat part at least,, the lice problem, Thomas O.wen in Kansas Farmer. V |