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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 56, 25 February 1902, Page 5

A correspondent in Farm Poultry gives an ingenious device for freeing laying hens of lice, after having used many other methods and failed. Hi.s plan was—-Take an ordinary common sized cotton clothesline; unbraid it so that it will make one-third or one half wHen flattened out; cut into pieces about 12 inches, long, and wind each one round the roost, letting t e two ends pass down into the neck of a bottle about -two-thirds full of kerosene, the bottle being suspended from the roost by a string fastened round the'neck. The clothesline acts like a wick drawing the oil up out of the bottle, and it being saturated with the oil, no louse can help coming into contact with it when he'attempts to go to the hen at night, or when he leaves her in the morning. Hens with scaly feet and legs are also soon cured of thei? trouble when tMs method is Jk... Bottles can be suspended three f TJKrr feet apart on the roost. -Iffae barque Jessie Osborne, ""at present in Wellington, is the first vessel fitted with air-hole sails that has visited this port. The invention belongs to an American > whose idea was that with one or two holes in it a sail would draw the wind better than the ordinary solid surface. *** Subscription to the MOTUEKA STAQ: — Three SkrUings and Sixpence a Quarter, which any time..