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Show DUST BOX FOR WINTER USL Combination of Hard Coal Ashes and Powdered Tobacco Stems Keepa Hens Free Prom Lice. Thinking the hens did not u tb?lr dust hnth aa much as they 1 ought, and believing the reason for this to he because the dust mat ' rial was so cold, we changed eondi 1 tlons In this way. A dry goods box ! three feet long, twenty Inches wide ' 1 by eighteen Inches deep wss obtain-1 obtain-1 od, says a writer In the Homestead. ! The bottom hoards were removed 1 and a new bottom nnlled on, lilt h ' wag one-fourth Inch thick. Anolhei 1 box, Just enough larger to allow th ' first to slip Inside easily, wss next ' foi'nd. This was placed In the si'n-' si'n-' Blent spot In the hen house and filed to within four Inches of the top with fresh horse manure. On top of this the smaller box wss set and filled tc ! A Winter Dst Box. 1 Within six Inches of th top wltb fitted bard cual ashes and some powdered pow-dered tobacco stems. In a short ( time the ashes felt warm and the bene soon found this out They have t kept remarkably free from lice, due we believe, to the tobacco. Fresh horse manure is put In two or three times during the winter. |