. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 65 by burning sulphvir and leaving the doors and windows closed for a few hours, there being, of course, no birds left inside at the time; still others fumigate by placing open bottles of bisul- phide of carbon about the poultry house. Aniseed is distasteful to most of the vermin of birds, and is an excellent remedy when powdered and dusted into the feathers, or when strewn into the nest boxes. A small quantity of the essential oil mixed with hot water renders this more effectual in destroying the mites about the roosts, nests
. California poultry culture. Poultry. CALIFORNIA POULTRY CULTURE. 65 by burning sulphvir and leaving the doors and windows closed for a few hours, there being, of course, no birds left inside at the time; still others fumigate by placing open bottles of bisul- phide of carbon about the poultry house. Aniseed is distasteful to most of the vermin of birds, and is an excellent remedy when powdered and dusted into the feathers, or when strewn into the nest boxes. A small quantity of the essential oil mixed with hot water renders this more effectual in destroying the mites about the roosts, nests and other Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burbridge, Mabelle A. (Mabelle Antoinette), b. 1872. [Los Angeles? Cal. ]
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