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Show HOT WEATHER POULTRY CARE Remove Every Window and Substituto Wire Netting for Ventilation of Hen House. It does not require much hard work to keep a flock in good condition in the summer, but absolute neglect will often completely destroy the winter egg-producing qualities of not only the old hens, but the pullets as well. If you have not removed every window win-dow in the chicken house and substituted substi-tuted wire netting, in order to provide perfect ventilation, do so at once. Better that the chicks roost in the trees than that they be confined in a vermin-ridden building. Body lice will worry a flock to death, or so nearly so as to destroy its usefulness. These can be killed, but not easily. Good insect powder will do the business. It should be applied with a powder spray by one person, while another holds the fowls by the legs so that the powder may reach every part of the skin through the disturbed dis-turbed feathers. |