Show DIPPING CHICKENS FOR LICE Likely to Become More General Than Dipping Cattle Because Pest Is More Numerous Prepared by by the United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment meat ot or Agriculture Dip that chick chicki 1 I It isn't for the sake of making a rhyme for dip that tick either Dipping chickens chickens chickens chick chick- ens Is likely to become more general than dipping cattle because the chicken louse Is a more widely distrIbuted distributed insect than th the cattle tick The dip consists of 1 ounce of sodium fluoride to the gallon of water waler which should be at a temperature of 70 to 85 degrees The dipping should be done on a clear warm never day never on a cold day The old way of getting rid of chicken lice was by dusting with dry sodium fluoride It was effective but in the case of large flocks it was slow and wasteful a great deal of the dusting material being inevitably y lost |