Beaver Press | 1924-11-07 | Page 7 | Use Sodium Fluoride to Kill Lice on Chickens

use sodium fluoride to kill lice on chickens for foi it killing filing lice on an chickens sodium fluoride dust can be applied by the tha pinch method and one pound Is usually considered sufficient for about mature birds place a pinch beneath the vent and on back breast head neck and on the thighs and tall about ten or twelve pinches of the dust for each bird should control the lice dipping Is only used in warm weather an am ounce of sodium fluoride to a gallon of water Is satisfactory use mildly warm water to reduce the chill received by the birds hold the hen by the base of the wings in one hand As the bird Is dipped in the solution the feathers are ruffled with the other others hand to permit the solution to reach all parts readily immerse the head quickly and then drain and free the bird dipping Is a little more economic I 1 cal of material and does doea quite a thorough job