Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . dozen ormore. From the day the chick leaves the egg, to thaton which it is prepared for market, it is subject to theattacks of one or more of theseparasites. That they interfeiewith the comfort, and conse-quently the thrift of the birds,is evident, and to be a successfulpoultry-raiser one should knowthorouglily the habits of thesepoultry enemies and the methodsof getting rid of them. Tlia^^some are wonderfully prolific isshown by feathers sent us by afriend in New Hampshire, whowrites: **They have somethingthe
Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . dozen ormore. From the day the chick leaves the egg, to thaton which it is prepared for market, it is subject to theattacks of one or more of theseparasites. That they interfeiewith the comfort, and conse-quently the thrift of the birds,is evident, and to be a successfulpoultry-raiser one should knowthorouglily the habits of thesepoultry enemies and the methodsof getting rid of them. Tlia^^some are wonderfully prolific isshown by feathers sent us by afriend in New Hampshire, whowrites: **They have somethingthe base, and about everyin the fluff is like(See Fig. 79.) The , of the natu-ral size, gives the appearance of the feathers. Amagnifier showed the **somethng on the base to bea dense mass of the eggs of a parasite, and it js safe tosay that tliere were several hundreds in each cluster. Aportion of the eggs had hatched, and we do not wonderthat our friend wrote that the * cockerel is very of the creaturee live only upon the feathers of the(189) on feather Fig. 7P -KGOS AT BASE OFFEATHER. 190 PROFITS IN POULTUY. bird, while others are provided with suckers by which todraw the blood. Where tha fowls are in good health,and have free use of the dust bath, they keep the para-sites from excessive increase. In winter there shouldalways be a box of fine earth for dusting kept whereno water can reach it. Old nest-boxes should be treatedto a bath of scalding lye before they are again used. To get rid of fleas, tlie chicken-house should bethoroughly whitewashed—not half done—with hot lime-wash. The floor should be well sprinkled with a solutionof carbolic acid, and the roosts thoroughly greased witha mixture of one pound of lard, one pint of i-aw linseedoil, a quarter of a pint of kerosene, and a quarter of apound of sulphur. When kerosene oil is placed on the fowls themselves,it should be used sparingly; properly applied, it is thebest known remedy for lice,
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