The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1245 
THE HENYARD 
Poultryman's Wages 
What are the usual wages paid oil 
poultry plants to the one who is trap- 
nesting. and what time should the lirst 
round be made in the morning and for 
the last trip in the afternoon? Would 
you give list of experiment stations that 
will be able to furnish us with plans for 
a good simple trap-nest? j. p. g. 
Versailles, O. 
Probably $00 a month with board and 
room for fairly good poultry men would 
be about the average wages paid at this 
time. Good men are very scarce and in 
great demand on poultry farms all over 
the country at wages running up to $100 
or more a month with board and room, 
but there are so few men who measure 
up to requirements that the average is 
brought down very materially from this 
figure. Of course this does not take into 
consideration positions of managers or 
superintendents. 
As a rule, the first round of trap-nests 
should be made at 7 a. m., standard time, 
and every two hours after that until three 
o’clock, making five times in all. Then it 
is always safer to take another look at 
them at feeding time or any time before 
dark to see that no late layers are con- 
iined on the nests all night. 
No doubt you would be able to get a 
description of a good trap-nest by writ¬ 
ing to the Poultry Department, College 
of Agriculture, Storrs, Conn. 
C. S. GREENE. 
Head Lice on Pullets 
Some pullets have head lice. What 
can bo done for them? I have used all 
kinds of powde" i. p. 
Now York. 
Any kind of simple grease smeared 
over the skin of the head will kill head 
lice, but it is not often necessary to treat 
for these lice alone. A bit of blue oint¬ 
ment about the size of a large pea may 
be smeared upon the skin just beneath 
the vent, and shoud rid the fowl of body 
lice for a long time, oue treatment being 
ordinarily sufficient, for the season. Body 
lice, unless present in large numbers, 
probably do fowls little harm, the red 
mites which congregate about the perches 
and suck the blood of the fowls at night 
being the most seriously damaging of 
such parasites. These may be kept in 
check by applications of kerosene, crude 
oil. or other oil, to the perches and hiding 
places about nests and behind loose 
boards in the poultry-house. A thorough 
application of some one of these mite de¬ 
stroyers once or twice during the warm 
weather should be sufficient to keep the 
mites in check. Blue ointment may be 
purchased at any drug store, it being the 
ordinary mercurial ointment of the shops. 
M. B. D. 
Remedies for Lice 
I have a*bout 100 pullets infested with 
lice. What remedies may be used? I 
was thinking of whitewashing the coop 
and using lice powder. F. L. P. 
Vermont. 
The henhouse should be well white¬ 
washed before cold weather, so that it can 1 
dry out thoroughly before the pullets are 
confined, to it. The perches should also 
be painted or sprayed with some grease 
or oil, like the waste oil from a gasoline 
engine, paying particular attention to the 
spaces beneath the ends where they rest 
Upon the supports. This is to destroy 
the red mites that congregate in such 
places and do much more harm than do 
the body lice found upon the fowls. These 
body lice may be destroyed by smearing a 
bit of blue ointment about the size of a 
grain of corn over the skin beneath the 
vent, or, if a powder is preferred, sodium 
fluoride may be worked through the feath¬ 
ers down to the slciu, a few good pinches 
being used for each fowl. M. b. d. 
Roup 
Last year I bad some chickens sick 
with a cold. They had one eye swollen 
and when opened a cheesy substance was 
squeezed out. I killed all that had a 
swollen eye, and to the others I was giv¬ 
ing a drop of arg.vrol in each eye and 
nostril, which helped them get well, but 
this year I have had two birds starting 
with the same thing. Is there anything 
that I can put into their drinking water, 
or mix into their mash, that, will prevent 
them from getting that way? j. p. 
New Jersey. 
If this trouble is caused by the germs 
of true roup, the isolation of the affected 
birds and disinfection of the quarters oc¬ 
cupied by them, by whitewashing, and 
the utensils from which they eat and 
drink, by the free use of boiling Water, 
will do as much to check it as anything 
outside the treatment which you describe. 
The drinking water may also have added 
to it enough potassium permanganate to 
color it a wine red, or as much us the 
chickens will accept. Roup is likely to he 
carried over from one year to another, 
though wet. cold weather predisposes to 
it by bringing about ordinary colds that 
lessen the resistance of the birds. There 
are no easy methods of getting rid of 
roup, thoroughness in applying the pre¬ 
ventives being very essential. " u. n. d. 
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