INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



scaly-leg, burrows into the skin and beneath the scales of the 

 feet and occasionally gets on the comb and the neck. The legs 

 become encrusted with the scaly tissue resulting from the work 

 of the mite and the feet sometimes get to be so tender that the 

 fowl can scarcely walk. 



The treatment recommended is to soak the legs in warm water 

 so as to soften the scales and then to dip the legs into crude 

 petroleum. The same material applied to the roosts may pre- 

 vent the spread which is from fowl to fowl on the roosts. 



Chiggers, the same as those found attacking man, are some- 

 times troublesome to chickens which are allowed to roam in 

 pasture fields grown up in brush as is common on farms. Dusting 

 with sulphur dust and keeping chickens, especially the young ones, 

 out of infested pastures, will aid in the control of the chiggers. 



Other Poultry Pests 

 Beside the mites and lice named, there are other species which 



FIQ. 603. The sticktight flea: adult female. Much enlarged. (After 

 Bishopp, U. S. Dept. of Agr.) 



attack chickens and each other kind of domestic fowl has its own 

 species of- these insects. These differ little from those found on 

 chickens and will respond to the same treatment. 



