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Show SPRAY FOR CHICKEN HOUSES Farmers Who Have Been Using Lime-Sulphur Lime-Sulphur on Trees Can Afford to Treat Hen Coops. At this season of the year a good many people have an opportunity to thoroughly clean nndrpray their poultry poul-try houses, and thereby destroy (ho lice and mites. Orchardists who have a spray and are using lime-sulphur for their fruit trees can very well afford to use the same spray in a rather stronger mixture to thoroughly disinfect and deodorize their chicken houses. If this is not available, thoroughly thor-oughly spraying with kerosene or n strong solution of stftck dip will kill the mites. Sodium fluoride If dusted into the feathers of the birds will d( stroy many of the lice. It Is quite Inexpensive In-expensive and may be purchased at practically nil drug stores. |