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the hands or face. It should be applied undiluted 

 with a brush. 



Watch the Brooders 



Brooders and coops where young chicks are kept 

 should be examined and treated often for mites, for 

 nothing will so quickly stunt the growth of young 

 stock. For coops for hens with their broods it is a 

 good plan to use clean new boxes and never to use 

 one a second time, and the same may be said of nest 

 boxes for sitting hens. If every one of these boxes 

 is destroyed as soon as the hen or the brood is 

 through with it much trouble will be saved. 



Tobacco powder scattered through the litter of the 

 sitting hens' nests will usually keep mites away, but 

 all nests should be watched. 



Mutton Tallow. — A very simple method of keep- 

 ing mites out of poultry houses is to paint the roosts 

 twice a year with hot mutton tallow. One of the 

 largest poultry plants in Southern California uses 

 this successfully. The tallow is melted and then is 

 kept hot over a .small oil stove while the caretaker 

 goes from house to house and paints the roosts with 

 it. On this plant all the roosting houses have cement 

 floors, and between the cement below and the tallow 

 on the roosts, with a good cleaning out twice a week, 

 no mite has a chance to find shelter. 



Carbolineum, zenoleum and other coal-tar prep- 

 arations are highly recommended for this purpose. 

 They are applied with a brush to roosts and walls. 



Ticks 



The tick or bedbug of poultry closely resembles 

 the bedbug found in dwelling houses. It is found 

 only in certain localities, usually on very sandy soil, 

 but where it does exist it is a terrible pest. The 



