COLORADO EXPERIMENT STATION 
board below the roosts should be cleaned daily, and the whole house 
once a week. The hens should have a good dust bath always ready, 
and two or three times a year the house should be white-washed inside, 
and carbolic acid mixed with the white-wash. Insect powder or 
tobacco dust dusted on and worked down through the feathers to the 
skin will kill body lice. Applications of boiling water or lice killer 
to the roosts and to all the woodwork, and particularly in the cracks, 
will kill the mites. Scald the nests with boiling water, as the lice 
killer will taint the eggs. Dr. J. W. Downey, one of the best poutry- 
men in Colorado, makes a good lice killer by crushing moth balls and 
dissolving them in kerosene. The liquid from this mixture is very 
inflammable and must not be used where there is a light of any kind. 
It is as effective as the patent lice killers and much cheaper. 
It takes hard, intelligent work to make money from poultry on the 
Plains, but if the new settler is willing to give the necessary attention, 
he is sure to have the money with which to buy the family groceries 
whether it rains or not. Even with every pound of feed purchased, 
a good poultryman can make money in Colorado, and in most years 
the dry land, farmer can provide most of the feed. 
THE DRY LAND GARDEN. 
The garden should be located where it can be irrigated from the 
well or where storm water from the prairie can be brought onto it by 
means of furrows. The patch should be small and should be given 
much cultivation. In most soils a garden can not be irrigated by 
taking water directly from the pump to the ground. A few square 
feet of ground will absorb water as fast as an ordinary windmill can 
deliver it. The water must be collected in a tank or earth reservoir, 
and then turned on in a considerable sized stream that will flow the 
entire length of the rows. 
When ready to irrigate, open a narrow furrow along the entire 
length of the row and a short distance from it. Pull a straight round 
post through this ditch, to smooth the ground, and then run the ditch 
full of water. Apply the water after sundown, as it will do more 
good then, and the next morning thoroughly cultivate the soil, making 
a good earth mulch. 
Mr. J. E. Payne, Superintendent of the U. S. Dry Land Experi¬ 
ment Station, Akron, Colorado, recommends that all garden crops 
be planted in rows and thoroughly cultivated. He recommends 
planting the usual small truck and a good patch of Mexican beans, 
early cow peas, sweet corn, potatoes, pumpkins, squashes, melons, and 
Pearl or Queen’s Golden pop corn. He recommends planting seven 
varieties of sweet corn; Cory, Black Mexican, Perry’s Hybrid, Stow- 
ell’s Evergreen, Country Gentlemen, Mammoth Evergreen and Egyp¬ 
tian. He plants all varieties the same day, often near the last of May, 
and has had roasting ears from July 26th to September 26th. “Sweet 
corn can be dried; the ripe grains parched are a luxury, as is popcorn 
