HEALTH AND SANITATION 



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the mites, and the house can be more easily rid of 

 or protected from them. 



Mites can be readily exterminated by brushing 

 the roosting poles or exposed parts with a mixture 

 of three parts kerosene and one part of crude car- 

 bolic acid. How often to do it can be determined 

 by examination. It seems hardly practicable to get 

 rid of them entirely, but they can be easily con- 

 trolled in the manner stated. A good plan is to 

 spread coal tar on the support on which the perch 

 rests. It is well to place sitting 

 hens in new boxes, as, if there 

 should be any of the mites about, 

 they will be apt to increase and 

 drive the hens from the eggs be- 

 fore through hatching. 



LICE 



Body lice, which lay their eggs 

 and pass through their various 

 stages of existence on the body 

 of the fowl, are much harder to 

 deal with. As a rule, active, 

 healthy hens having free range 

 or access to a good dust bath may 

 be depended upon to keep them- 

 selves fairly well rid of body lice. 

 It is recommended to dust them 

 with insect powder, and some- 

 times this may become neces- 

 sary, but it is a tedious and 

 difficult job at best, and it is utterly impossible 

 to kill all the vermin by one or two applications. 

 It is well to examine the hens occasionally to see 



GRANARY 



Shoe box; hinged 

 top slide over grain 



