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of being able to move everything and cleanse under- 

 neath. 



Droppings-boards are a great help in keeping a 

 house sanitary. They too should be movable and 

 should be cleaned very often. 



The Garden Hose 



No weapon is more effective in the war against 

 mites than the common garden hose. A house hosed 

 well once a week, walls, ceiling, roosts and nest boxes, 

 is likely to be free from mites. If the hosing is fol- 

 lowed twice a month by painting roosts, nests, and 

 the walls next to the roosts with kerosene and crude 

 carbolic acid (1 part acid to 3 or 4 of kerosene) 

 there will be little trouble from mites or other 

 vermin. 



In a large house where the hose cannot be con- 

 veniently used, it is necessary to spray once a month 

 in cold weather and at least twice a month in warm 

 weather, but on a small place the hose is cheaper 

 and more easily used and just as effective. 



Summer Quarters 



Here is a little secret of my own, and I have not 

 been bothered by mites since I discovered it. When 

 hot weather comes, get your hens out of the main 

 house into temporary quarters. On the farm this is 

 easy, for it is only necessary to build a burlap-cov- 

 ered shed in the orchard or stubble field. On a back 

 lot it is not so easy, but it can often be done. When 

 the birds are out of the houses during the mites' 

 breeding time, the mites do not breed there, and a 

 good painting with lice killer when the fowls return 

 in the fall will keep them out for a good while. Even 

 when the fowls cannot be removed from all the 

 houses, if they have been properly culled in June, 



