WHERE NESTLINGS FLOURISH [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In
your page on " Country Life," .on November 12th, 1927, which has lately reached me, there is a paragraph headed " Where Nestlings Flourish," on the application of insect
powder to the nests of partridges and the great improvement in the number of birds raised to the acre by that means. But I would have put the insect powder on the banks about the hedges, where partridges dust themselves, 'as nests are often difficult to find.
I write now to offer another hint which may interest keepers. For some years now we have been able to get from the poultry drug merchants a drug in tabloid or in liquid form to put into the drinking water of our fowls. A teaspoonful in a large dishful of water lasts for a month or two, if the dish is refilled without wasting any, and the effect is to make the fowls immune to insects. We can handle and pluck the birds with out finding any lice and their health is, of course, improved.
No lime-wash or louse powder is needed and much trouble Alberta, Canada J. M. LIDDELL.
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