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Show SODIUM FLUORIDE FOR LICE Remedy Which Is Comparatively New Can Be Used as Dust or Dipping Fluid How to Apply. Comparatively new and little known lice remedy is sodium fluoride, which can be used as a dust or to make a dipping fluid. One pound, costing at present 40 to 50 cents, will treat 100 full-grown fowls. If made into a dip It will be sufficient for .100 birds. This remedy has been found to kill all of the seven common varieties of poultry poul-try lice. When applied as a dust, the usual plan Is to place a pinch of the chemical In the feathers next to the skin on the head, neck, back, tail, breast, thighs, under wings, and below be-low the vent, or say, 10 to 12 pinches of the powder for each bird. This dust Is harmless to the chickens and operator, opera-tor, but it will irritate the eyes of the birds or operator should It get Into them. For dipping with this preparation, dissolve two-thirds of an ounce of pure sodium fluoride poison In each gallon of tepid water. Pip the birds, with wings raised, for half a minute, ruffling the feathers meanwhile. Do not dip the birds' head under the fluid at first, but Just before removing from the dip. place the birds' head under the surface of the dip once or twice. |