. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. s, the lard and kerosene should be dispensed with. The powderedsulphur alone, or the carbolic powder, if thoroughly applied, is sufficient on their little bodies; 588 THE AMERICAN FARMER. and tlie other is too pungent and penetrating, until they are older, and , sponge the roosts once in a week or fortnight with kerosene, or spirits of this iu the day time. It will thus dry off or evaporate mostly by nightfall. The
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. s, the lard and kerosene should be dispensed with. The powderedsulphur alone, or the carbolic powder, if thoroughly applied, is sufficient on their little bodies; 588 THE AMERICAN FARMER. and tlie other is too pungent and penetrating, until they are older, and , sponge the roosts once in a week or fortnight with kerosene, or spirits of this iu the day time. It will thus dry off or evaporate mostly by nightfall. The fumesremain, however, and these are death to the parasites, if any are about. Next, dust thelaying-nests and the sitting-coops, with the sulplmr. Place under the straw where hens sitdry tobacco leaves, if convenient. And upon the bottom and sides of nest-boxes rub thekerosene, occasionally. Figs. 1 and 2 represent the mammoth body insects (largely magnified), that burrowamong the down of geese and upon the thick under-plumage of the peacock. Fig. 3represents the duck-louse, an insect that seeks shelter on the soft downy feathers of the FIG. 1. riG. 5. POULTRY VEEMIN. They are not usually very troulilesome to the old duck except when confined in closequarters, and especially when sitting. They are a rapacious little insect, and the ducklingswill be liable to become infested with them unless the mother has been cleansed beforeleaving her nest with her young flock. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the lice most commonly seenupon hens and chicks. These are but a few of the many species of parasites that infestpoultry, and which may be exterminated by proper care. Among the varieties of parasitesthat breeders have found excessively troublesome, none have proved more difficult to destroyor get rid of, when once they obtain possession of the fowl premises or get a hold on theirbodies, than the small red louse (or red spider, as some call it, being not unlike the green-house apliis), wh
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