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Show FOWL8 WITHOUT LICE. Don't Give Vermin a Foothold, and Your Task Will Be Easy. Last summer the editor of the Farmers' Hovlew visited the, Maine experiment station, That fitatlon has dono u great deal In tiio way of poul-try poul-try Investigation. Conditions there are of the very best, with tho result! thnt the enterprise a successful, One of tho surprising things found there li that thorb nro 'no lice'. Const'-1 quuutly no lice .killers have to be used; tho chicks do not have to bo greased after they are out of the shell; tho birds do not have to be fed iH enough food to supply both thorn-. selves mid tho lice,, nnd tho perches do not have to bo painted with' antl-lice antl-lice paint. All this expense, and all this labor nrq saved. t Is a wondor thnt considering the great losses wo experience from lice JH we db not tako moro precautions to entirely rid; tho poultry houses of them. A fovy yenra ago the Farmers' Hevlow sent out Inquiries to many IH poultry rnlscrs as to tho causo of their greatest losses. Most bf tho replies' said that (ho greatest josses wero duo to lice. It may bo that to lice are' due far greater losses than wo havo suspected. Wo know very Httlo about how con- iH laglous dlsedses arc carried from fowl to Jowl., It may bo that tho lien do more of this work than any other mo dliiin. It may lie that a louso draws Infected1 blood from One fowl 'find lB from It .Infects the .next fowl on which ho happens to be. Thoro Is an Inipresshin abroad that there Is Httlo poultry dlseaso where there are no lice and no dirt, It Is a good thing to nssumo. this at any lH rate. It inay be un orror. but It It Is the error Is "on tho part of virtue. Prof., Cluirlos Wood In charge of the Malnq statipn, wna.askod by tlio writer how ho could keep lib fowls free from Hco. Ho replied that it was an easy thjng to do IIo start-cd start-cd with perfectly elpau pons 1111 d yards. Ho used Incubators that had nover been it sod bofbre, and ho put ' Into those Incubators eggs that had no Hco on them. Tho chicks hatched had no lice, and no fowls aro pur-chUBod pur-chUBod und brought onto tho farm Thqio hus to bo a beginning for tho Hco Infestation, and the problem Is to prevent the beginning.' This Is not n dltllcdlt thing' to do. 1 If it can be done at an experiment' H station where thero aro, 000 laying- H hens nnd thousands of chicks, (t cer- Hf talnly call' bb dono on any farm. jE 1 |