February ? 
92 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
FIGHTING LICE IN LARGE FLOCKS 
What the Poultrymen Do. 
I have very little trouble with lice among 
my hens; no lice at all excepting in Sum¬ 
mer season; a few mites on some of the 
roosts and nest boxes, which I wash with 
kerosene two or three times when lice 
appear. c. e. u haywakd. 
New Hampshire. 
Is It possible to do much more than pro¬ 
vide a dust bath? Yes, 1 paint the roosts 
with Lee’s lice killer four times a year, 
and I also catch all the fowls singly and 
dust them with lice powder (Dalmatian in¬ 
sect powder). I take a galvanized wash 
tub, hold the fowl over tub and take some 
of the powder and pull my hand against 
the fowl’s feathers on back and then some 
under wings and breast. 1 do this in March 
and April just before 1 want to set hens 
on eggs. Always, when I set a hen, I dust 
her when I put her on gla.ss eggs twice 
before I put eggs under her. 
Waterford, Wis. ii. w. iiALnsAcii. 
My way is to keep the roosting rooms 
perfectly clean. I try to clean droppings 
boards every other day; then take a box 
of fine dust and a fire shovel and throw 
dust over everything, cover the roosts and 
droppings boards and everywhere that It 
will lodge. I always keep plenty of dust 
for the hens to wallow in in each house. 
’I’hen in addition to this I take some good 
liquid lice killer and just before roosting 
time give the roosts a good painting; do 
this every two or three weeks. Sitting 
hens I dust with Persian Insect powder; 
little chicks put in a box and cover with 
a cloth just moistened with coal oil; leave 
them covered 30 minutes, c. h. cor.LiNS. 
Knox, Ind. 
Lice have as surely to be reckoned with 
in a large plant as in one with only a 
dozen hens, and it has to be done syste¬ 
matically or it becomes a serious matter. 
The person feeding a few hens that are 
covered with vermin may scarcely feel the 
loss—and loss It surely is. But let the 
man feeding 1,000 hens allow them to be¬ 
come Infested with vermin and he quickly 
realizes the situation. “An ounce of pre¬ 
vention is worth a pound of cure,’’ is an 
old proverb, but it is a. good one in fight¬ 
ing chicken lice. Every 10 days or two 
weeks we send a man through all the 
houses with lime wash to which has been 
added some kerosene, and he thoroughly 
paints the perches and the supports. Be¬ 
sides this, the houses, nests, etc., are thor¬ 
oughly whitewashed twice or more times 
during the season. These precautions usu¬ 
ally keep us free from vermin in all our 
houses, but in very long continued rainy 
weather, when the hens find it hard to 
get plenty of dry earth to dust in, the 
lice will get ahead. Then we use the gaa 
treatment, hydrocyanic acid gas, and start 
all over again. Be very careful if you 
ever use this gas treatment, as it is ex¬ 
ceedingly dangerous to breathe it. 
Yorktown, N. Y. white & rice. 
No Roosts.— Years ago I discarded roosts 
In my houses, believing that my birds 
(Light Brahmas) were too heavy to sit all 
nigrit on one, and that “bumble foot’’ came 
from flying down from them and alighting 
with so heavy a weight resting on the feet. 
The houses have dirt floors, filled in so 
that they are about a foot higher inside 
than the surrounding ground outside. The 
scratching sheds are treated in the same 
way, and a dry dusty surface secured 
thereby. This is covered with five or six 
inches of straw. Every two weeks this 
straw is changed, and is thoroughly 
sprayed just before roosting time with 
“Lee’s lice killer.’’ The fowls sit through 
the night on this sprayed bed of straw, and 
receive the full benefit of the killer. The 
dry dirt of the floor gives them a dust 
bath at any time. I have a small hand 
sprayer which I can use myself, and find 
it a great convenience. The straw when 
taken from the houses is either burned or 
hauled out and spread on the fields. I use 
Incubators to do the bulk of my hatching, 
but late in the season I usually set some 
hens to insure plenty of young chickens 
for table use, and the setting hens and 
chicks when hatched are dusted well with 
Lambert’s “Death to Lice.’’ That rids the 
mother and her brood of the annoying ver¬ 
min. This is my method and by it I have 
secured great comfort to my fowls. 
Bourbon, Ill. MRS. W. B. chandler. 
The usual method employed by the large 
practical poultry breeders in keeping their 
henhouses reasonably free from lice is to 
give them an occasional inside whitewash¬ 
ing with about five per cent of coal oil 
mixed with the lime. Where breeders have 
good tree sprayers they use them in put¬ 
ting the mixture on, but in the absence of 
such brushes are used. When the sprayer 
is used carbolic acid can be substituted 
for coal oil; either is death to lice. This 
effectually rids the houses of the lice that 
feed on the fowls at night when they are 
roosting. The large body lice are more 
difficult entirely to get rid of, but good 
dust baths keep them down pretty well. 
When they get too troublesome the fowls 
should be sprayed with coal oil, using a 
very fine sprayer; the roosting perches 
should also be well sprayed with coal oil. 
It is quite easy to tell when the fowls 
have more lice on them than is wholesome; 
as their combs and gills lose their bright 
red and become pale you may rest as¬ 
sured that the lice require immediate at¬ 
tention. Coal oil should never be used on 
sitting hens, as it kills the chick germ in 
the eggs; in fact, no kind of oil or grease 
should ever be put on sitting hens, as it 
stops the pores of the eggshell and pre¬ 
vents hatching. When hens that are sit¬ 
ting gets lousy a moderate spraying with 
tobacco water generally answers the pur¬ 
pose. All kinds of powders used for such 
purposes are more or less poisonous, and 
should be used with care. t. b. allinson. 
Burlington, N. J. 
THERMOMETERS IN INCUBATOR. 
I always u.se two thermometers In 
each incubator, one resting on the eggs, 
back about three rows of eggs from the 
glass door, and the other hanging up 
just inside of the glass door of the egg 
chamber. It is very convenient to have 
a small thermometer hanging there, for 
as soon as the eggs begin to hatch the 
chicks will run around quite a good deal 
and are most sure to upset any ther¬ 
mometer resting on the eggs, or to 
crowd against the glass door so you can’t 
see the temperature of a thermometer 
placed very far back, I have found by 
a quite extended series of observations 
that when the thermometer resting on 
the eggs registers a certain temperature 
the same thermometer hanging freely in 
the air of the egg chamber would regis¬ 
ter about four degrees lower. That is 
when the thermometer resting on the 
eggs registers 103 degrees, the one hang¬ 
ing up registers only 99; at least mine 
register in about this relation. The dif¬ 
ference in temperature was found as fol¬ 
lows: When I heat up the incubator in 
the Spring to begin a hatch I put in botli 
thermometers. Of course both read alike 
until after the eggs are in and the germs 
begin to grow. Every time I go near 
the incubators after this I read both in¬ 
struments and set down the .’■eadings in 
a blank book kept for that purpose. As 
soon as the germs in the eggs begin to 
grow the difference between the two ther¬ 
mometers begins to grow and keeps on 
getting larger and larger, until in about 
three days it becomes constant, the ther¬ 
mometer on the eggs registering 103 de¬ 
grees and the one hanging up 99 degrees. 
Two cautions need to be added. Always 
have the thermometer hanging up on 
the same level as the one on the eggs, 
i. e., same distance from floor of egg 
chamber; this is because the tempera¬ 
ture rises about one degree to every li^- 
inch rise above the floor of the egg 
chamber. 
Before setting the eggs always com¬ 
pare the reading of the two thermom¬ 
eters at all practical temperatures to see 
that they read alike. To do this hang 
up both instruments side by side in the 
warm egg chamber, and take a series of 
readings to see whether they read alike 
or not. If they read alike, well and 
good. If they do not take your table of 
readings. And what is the real difference 
between the readings of the two ther¬ 
mometers, and apply tnis figure as a cor¬ 
rection to the one hanging up, regarding 
the one on the eggs as a standard. Thus, 
suppose No. 1 averaged 103 degrees. No. 
2 averaged 102 degrees for the same 
readings, average difference one degree, 
a correction which must be added to all 
readings of No, 2 thermometer to get 
the real temperature. No. 1 being called 
standard. In practice you will very sel¬ 
dom find any two thermometers that 
will read alike when placed side by side. 
In fact, any thermometer will change a 
little as the years go by, so that to get 
the actual temperature it must be com¬ 
pared with another instrument which is 
known to be a standard. 
Ohio. WALTER CASTLE, 
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