RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



general preventive measures, the following are the best: Have the 

 poultry house clean, well-aired and well-lighted, get sunlight into it as much 

 as possible. Provide a good dust-bath in a sunny part of the house, and 

 change the dust often. Keep the roosts and droppings boards clean and 

 well kerosened. Whitewash the house and the nests inside and out several 

 times a year. If you object to whitewash, use some of the creosote wood 

 preserving paints. Dust the fowls when ever the lice are found, and do not 

 be content with one dusting. Give at least three thorough dustings about 

 a week apart, or use a liquid lice destroyer. Brooders should be well washed 

 with warm soap, water and kerosene, and thoroughly dried before being used 

 or put away. A good, plain hot whitewashing improves them. 



HOW TO FIGHT VERMIN 



Remember that lice are on the fowl, down deep among the feathers 

 and treatment, to be successful, must reach them. The mites and fleas 

 are to be combatted in their breeding places. Whitewash, sunlight, lime 

 in the dust and soapy water in the dark, dusty places under bushes and trees 

 will exterminate the fleas. Hot whitewash, kerosene, creosote paint or 

 kerosene, with naphthalene or a little creolin applied to the abode of the 

 mites will destroy them. Dusting the fowls thoroughly, or using some good 

 lice killer wiU keep the lice down so that the fowls are practically free from 

 them. Nearly all the commercial dusting powders, are good; those contain- 

 ing tobacco dust or Persian insect powder are the best, as these are poison- 

 ous to the lice. 



An ounce of creoUn in one quart of kerosene makes an effective remedy 

 for mites and fleas. Applied to roosts, droppings boards and nests, it will 

 destroy and keep away vermin. A good liquid lice killer may be made by 

 dissolving in kerosene all it wiU take up of crude naphthalene flakes. This is 

 an excellent liquid to apply to roosts to destroy mites. To use it to destroy 

 lice on fowls, make a box frame, without top or bottom, large enough to 

 hold several Hens, and fit on the droppings board. Provide a burlap cover 

 for it. Place the frame on the droppings board, and paint the droppings 

 board, which serves as the bottom of box, well with the liquid Uce killer, 

 also sprinkle a little on the burlap. Put the hens to be treated into this 

 box, and cover with the burlap. Leave for half or three-quarters of an hour, 

 and the lice will be found dead and dying on the bottom of the box, and the 

 fowls comparatively free from them. Three treatments, one week apart, 

 will be sufficient in most cases. The burlap should be coarse enough to ad- 

 mit fresh air to the fowls, and is intended only partially to confine the fumes 

 of the lice killer. If the burlap is made longer than the box and tacked on 

 at one end, the loose end being longer and free to lap over end of box, it can be 

 easily held in place with a brick or two. The odor of the lice killer or the creolin 

 and kerosene mixture will, if applied occasionally prevent mites from har- 

 boring about the roosting places. Four fluid ounces of the lice killer added 

 to a half peck of finely sifted coal ashes mixed with half a peck of tobacco 

 dust, makes a cheap and effective dusting powder after they are well mixed 



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