Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — DUST BOX FOR WINTER USE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DUST BOX FOR WINTER USE

Combination of Hard Coal Ashes and Powdered Tobacco Stems Keeps Hens Free From Lice. Thinking the hens did not use their dust bath as much as they ought, and believing the reason for this to be because the dust material was so cold, we changed conditions in this way. A dry goods box three feet long, twenty Inches wide by eighteen inches deep was obtained, says a writer in the Homestead.' The bottom boards were removed! and a new bottom nailed on, which was one-fourth Inch thick. Another box, just enough larger to allow the first to slip inside easily, was next found. This was placed in the sunniest spot in the hen house and filled) to within four inches of the top witH fresh horse manure. On top of thia the smaller box was set and filled to

within six inches of the top with sifted hard coal ashes and some powdered tobacco stems. In a short time the ashes felt warm and the bens soon found this out They have kept remarkably free from lice, due, we believe, to the tobacco. Fresh horse manure is put in two or three times during the winter.