Show delouse setter before putting her on eggs before you set any hen not known to be absolutely free of lice give glye her some sort of treatment to destroy lice and then see that the nest Is 19 clean with fresh nest material the nicotine sulphate treatment recently discovered Is one of the easiest ways way to delouse a setting hen paint a few dabs of it in the bottom of a box just large enough for the hen to sit in and put her in it over night it will not deter her from setting but it will dest destroy royall all living lice now use a bit of blue DIDt ointment ment in the region below the vent where lice breed and there will be no lice problem when chicks hatch if a lousy hen Is just about ready to hatch paint the nicotine sulphate generously in a box that has been warmed to promote rapid evaporation of the fumes and put the lien in for an hour covering her eggs with warm flannel in the meantime use the blue ointment also to get the nits aits that may hatch batch there are ard other ways of delousing which takes more time whatever Is used do it before the chicks hatch and avoid the troubles that lice bring |