. Diseases and enemies of poultry . 20. Chicken Louse.(iinniiciitex yiiins, times natural size. with great rapidity. It liasbeen estimated that tlie thirdo-eneratioii springing from asingle individual may reachthe enonnous number of 125,-000 within twelve weeks. While it is true that ne-glect, dirt, fllth, etc., favor thegrowtli and propagation oflice, it should always be re-membered that they cannotappear in the poultry yardunless they are brought in byan infested fowl or by a cagethat a fowl has been in orsome other object that an in-fested fo^^l lias been in contact with. I»ut fo
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . 20. Chicken Louse.(iinniiciitex yiiins, times natural size. with great rapidity. It liasbeen estimated that tlie thirdo-eneratioii springing from asingle individual may reachthe enonnous number of 125,-000 within twelve weeks. While it is true that ne-glect, dirt, fllth, etc., favor thegrowtli and propagation oflice, it should always be re-membered that they cannotappear in the poultry yardunless they are brought in byan infested fowl or by a cagethat a fowl has been in orsome other object that an in-fested fo^^l lias been in contact with. I»ut foAvls areinterchanged so frecpiently and fowls of ditferenlowners oome in contact in so many wayis at poultryshows, in markets, etc., that it is not at all difficult foi-a yard that was previously free from these parasites tobecome infested when least suspected. These parasites occasion as much loss as any diseasethat fowls are subject tO. ^^hile they alone do notoften kill birds, in many cases they so annoy them b\their constant irrit
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