but how easy it is for these diseases to be carried from one 

 poultry ranch to another through the medium of the grain 

 sack. Sounds reasonable, doesn't it? Also mites and lice and 

 chicken ticks, or chicken bedbugs as they are sometimes 

 called, which are all a curse to the poultry business, may be 

 carried in the same manner. 



It is a better plan to take the empty grain sacks and pin 

 them or tack them on the windward side of your poultry 

 yard, and spray them Avith a good disinfecting spray, made 

 after the following formula: One gallon of crank case or 

 crude oil, one quart of crude carbolic acid, creosote oil or 

 sheep dip and two gallons of kerosene distillate or coal oil 

 tops. The crank case oil may be obtained from any garage, 

 filling station, or taken from your own auto or tractor. It 

 doesn't cost much and is one of the best things in the world 

 to use around a poultry yard, or to put mites out of business 

 with. 



This article is not written with the idea of antagonizing 

 anyone or to interfere in any way with anybody's business, 

 but is based upon real honest to goodness facts, obtained 

 from practical observation and experience. 



The moral of this article is : Do not return empty grain 

 sacks, and thereby save yourself and your neighbor a multi- 

 tude of worry, and lots of expense. 



A FEW REMEDIES, FEED MASHES, SUGGESTIONS, 

 ETC., FOR THE CARE OF POULTRY 



TO ELIMINATE WORMS IN POULTRY FLOCKS 



Stir one pint of prescription turpentine in five gallons of 

 wheat and just before the regular grain is fed in the after- 

 noon and the chickens are hungry, scatter a few handf uls on 

 the ground so that each chicken will have a chance to get a 

 few grains only. The idea is not to feed them too much at 

 any one time. Repeat this in ten days, then every six months 

 and repeat. Follow this treatment up with a 3% dose of 

 Epsom salts given in the mash. Scatter slacked or hydrated 

 lime over the ground and turn it under so as to kill the eggs 

 of the worms as they live in the ground quite a period. 

 Always keep houses, runways, coops, drinking crocks and 

 everything thoroughly disinfected in and about the prem- 

 ises. This remedy will not affect a laying hen as regards to 



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