SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
crevice; it is cheap and very easy to 
apply, and its odor is very disagreeable 
to the mites and lice. 
If you keep your poultry house clean, 
you will never be bothered with mites as 
long as there is an odor of coal-oil about 
them. Don’t let anything, so small and 
weak as a chicken mite, ruin your business 
when they are so easily destroyed. 
There are other lice that bother poul- 
try besides the little red or gray mites. 
They are larger than the mites, and sel- 
dom leave the fowls. They will be found 
the most numerous on the head, under 
the wings, and around the vent. 
These lice, when very numerous, injure 
the fowls very much. I know of no way 
to get rid of them, and of no economical 
way to control them, except nature’s way. 
Of course, where there is but a small 
flock, like the city man’s back-yard flock, 
it might be possible to get rid of them 
altogether; but even in this case, if you 
should succeed in getting rid of them, 
some transient bird, flying about, would 
be kind enough to give you another start. 
But the methods that you would use to get 
rid of the lice on a small flock could not 
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