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MR. OKK: Yes, sir; if they have average care it is better for the 

 heus to be eonfined. 



A Member: Would it not be better to have the hen-house you 

 described off the ground six or eight inches on locust posts and have 

 a lloor in and ventilation thus furnished and so no vermin could 

 get in, and shut up that place with a screen of close wire netting, 

 and so that there would be a draught through in warm weather and 

 that it could be closed up tight in winter? 



• Mil. ORR: If you are going to put a floor in at all I prefer to raise 

 it up. We have one house with a floor in it and another on sloping 

 ground without a floor with perches from one to two feet off the 

 ground. We have it so t]iat they can get under the house and 

 in this warm weather they like that. 



A Member: It is only on account of vermin that T would have the 

 floor. 



MR. ORR: So would I if the ground about the house had proper 

 drainage. But don't be too sure on the vermin question. I would 

 have said once I would give you a dollar for every red mite you could 

 find on the place. I was going through one of our houses, which I 

 thought was free from vermin, with a gentleman, but the very first 

 perch we turned up we found a bunch of these red mites. We got 

 out our sprayers and went over every compartment. He was in- 

 terested in that lice question and he was as glad as I was embar 

 rassed to find that we had lice. So don't be too certain, as I was, 

 that you hav'ut any lice. 



A Member: What is the remedy for these lice? 



MR. ORR: There are half a dozen of these liquid lice killers that 

 will do the work. 



A Member: Crude oil will do it. 



MR. ORR: Crude oil is a good thing, but it will not kill all lice; 

 but there are liquid lice killers that will do it; crude carbolic acid 

 will do it. But I want to say this, that I don't care how good your 

 remedy is. if you don't use it it is not going to kill them. Remember 

 that. 



The CHAIRMAN: The next speaker vnU be Prof. H. A. Surface, 

 Economic Zoologist. 



Prof. Surface addressed the assemblage as follows: 



Ladies and Gentlemen: It is not necessary for me to say that 

 it is a pleasure for me to be here and meet the gentlemen whom T 

 know well, and with whom I have been corresponding for some 

 time. It seems that when T come before you or meet with you 

 to-day for the first time in my official capacity as Economic Zoolo- 



