| Show CHICKEN LICE WORRY FOWLS application of blue ointment Is efficacious fica flOa cious clous sodium also borks well A study of the life of chicken lice shows that there aro are a dozen different kinds infecting tho the same bird most moat of them however frequent the rear part of the alie body at least once in every twenty four hours where they obtain the necessary moisture tor for their life and growth this moisture Is obtained from around the vent this habit of lice would answer one method of treat treatment the use of blue ointment blue ointment applied around the vent and under the wing of each fowl affected seems to get rid of the lice in a very short time A piece the size of a good sized pea la Is plenty lor ono one bird if thel blue ointment Is thick and heavy lt it should bo be melted so that it can bo be applied in a very thin layer it Is well to make a second application two weeks after the first especially it if the birds are badly affected wo we und find that about two applications abear a year seem to bo be lelent to control tho the lice any of tho the advertised lice powders ind and many of the homo home made powders seem to work very well for a short time their results however a are re only temporary X V X q sk j applying sodium Flu orld labor in holding down this trouble good dust wallow handy to the poultry dollso also adds considerably to controlling this pest sodium can also bo be used to control lice this Is a common preparation which can be obtained at any drug store it Is applied by what Is known as the pinch method A pinch should be worked into the nuh fluff of the toll tall a pinch under each cacti wing a pinch on the back and a pinch worked into the neck feathers this treatment seems to work very well by harry Emble embleton fon professor of poultry husbandry oklahoma A and lif collego college |
