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Show DUST BATH NEEDED BY POULTRY FLOCK Almost Any Fine, Dry Powder Will Make Good Material Add a Little Kerosene Oil. (By M. J. KILPATRICK, Poultry Expert, Ohio State University.) Fowls will keep themselves free, from vermin during the winter months if given a convenient place to dust. A box 30 inches square and 12 inches deep may be built in one corner of the pen or such a box may be made with legs so as to raise it 16 inches off of the floor. Almost any fine, dry powder will make good dusting material. The particles par-ticles should be fine enough so that they will choke up the breathing pores of the parasites which live on the fowl's body. Equal parts of loam, sand and sifted sift-ed coal ashes, to which has been added a little kerosene oil and the whole thoroughly miid. is often used Cor the dust. |