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‘‘ FUMIGATION — Use ordinary sulphur candles: one candle will serve for an ordinary 
poultry house having about one hundred and fifty square feet of floor space. Drive the 
fowls from the house, and carefully close all doors and windows before lighting the 
candle, which should be put on an old tin can cover placed on a pan of wet ashes. After 
lighting the sulphur shut the house up tightly, and keep it so for four or five hours. Air 
the building thoroughly before allowing the fowls to return. Treat the fowls for lice 
at the same time. 
“Insect PowprErs — most of the insect powders in the market are good. Those lice 
powders containing tobacco dust are best. Dusting with insect powder is of no value 
unless thoroughly done, and repeated at least three times, at intervals of a week or ten 
days. The best way to dust a fowl is to hold it by the legs, head down, over a box or 
some receptacle to catch the surplus powder, and then, with the free hand, work the 
powder thoroughly into the feathers and down to the skin. 
‘“ KEROSENE — is one of the most common, cheapest, and best insecticides for use in 
the poultry house. Kerosene applied every month to the roosts is a good remedy against 
mites. It may also be applied with a brush to the walls and all cracks in the poultry ~ 
house. 
‘KEROSENE EMULSION —is effective in place of whitewash for ridding the house of 
vermin. It is made by dissolving a pound of hard soap in a gallon of boiling water, 
remove from the fire and, while hot, add two gallons of kerosene. Churn or agitate 
briskly for ten or fifteen minutes, or until the mixture becomes thick and creamy. Then 
add about twenty gallons of cold water, and stir in thoroughly. It can be applied to the 
ccop by a sprayer, a watering pot, or an old broom. It should be driven well into all 
cracks. 
‘“LIME AND SuULPHUR—a disinfecting powder is made of lime and sulphur as 
follows: —To half a bushel of fresh, thoroughly air-slaked lime add ten pounds of 
powdered sulphur and a fluid ounce of carbolic acid; mix thoroughly by stirring with 
a stick. This powder is harmless to fowls, and may be used freely about the house, and 
in nests and dust boxes. 
‘““Topacco STEMS and sweepings are excellent addition to nest material as a vermin 
preventive. 
‘Carry on the warfare against vermin zz the poultry house, and on the fowls at the same 
tz7me, and you will get results.” 
Besides the common hen lice, fowls suffer from attacks of other insects: 
.osguzttos often bite combs, faces, and wattles; apply a little carbolated 
vaseline. 
Buffalo or Turkey Guats in swarms attack fowls along river bottoms, 
especially in Mississippi valley states. Preventive measures are: building. 
smudge fires, and smearing exposed parts with carbolated vaseline, or some 
stinking oil. 
Chiggers, Harvest Mites are common in the Mississippi valley as far north 
as Iowa. They harbor in weeds and bushes, and the only known preventive 
is to keep the fowls out of such places. 
fleas sometimes infest poultry houses. They are destroyed by usual 
treatments for lice. 
Bedbugs can be exterminated by using whitewash, to which turpentine has 
been added, or by applying to the spots they haunt: ‘ Half-pint each of 
