HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 
1910 
Prepare a solution as follows:— 
Slake five pounds of lime in a sufficient 
quantity of water—about one pailful. Use 
a deep firkin and stir the bubbling liquid 
with a long stick during the process. Dis¬ 
solve three pounds of flour of sulphur in 
water, adding enough afterward to make 
ten gallons in all. Pour into a boiler, add 
the slaked lime and boil for four hours, 
stirring from time to time. Apply hot to 
the walls of the hennery, to the nesting- 
boxes and the floor, using a small spraying 
pump. It may be applied with a white¬ 
wash brush, but in that case, a double 
quantity should be used. The quantity 
suggested should be sufficient to cover two 
hundred square feet of surface. The solu¬ 
tion is an amber color when applied and 
dries almost white. When dry the perches 
are replaced, and the nests are filled with 
fresh straw, among which a few leaves of 
tobacco should be scattered. 
The dust baths should contain fine, 
clean sand, and a little powdered tobacco 
or sulphur may be mixed into it as a pre¬ 
ventive. 
A species of vermin known as the gape 
worm often affects young chicks, causing 
them to make a peculiar gaping movement 
in the effort to dislodge the worm from 
the throat. If not removed, the trouble 
will lower the vitality of the chicks. 
Moisten a feather in oil of turpentine or 
kerosene and insert it into the throat, 
twisting it slightly to loosen the worms. 
The gape worm originates in damp 
filthy ground and is picked up by the 
chicks that run thereon. To eradicate it, 
the soil should be sweetened by broad¬ 
casting it with lime. It should be turned 
with a plow and limed again. Sprinkling 
with a five per cent, solution of carbolic 
acid is also very useful. 
Having obtained a sanitary condition, 
the next aim is to maintain it. Daily re¬ 
move the droppings from the floor and put 
them into a covered box outside. Sprinkle 
over the floor, clean, fine ashes or sand. 
Examine the poultry frequently, and if 
vermin are found, repeat the local treat¬ 
ment and fumigate the building. 
The hiding places which crevices and 
rough surfaces afford are very favorable 
to poultry vermin. Perch poles unstripped 
of bark should not be tolerated. If possi¬ 
ble, have the inside woodwork smooth. 
Admit as much sunlight as possible by 
means of large windows and see that the 
floor of the hennery is free from dampness. 
An earth floor should be five or six inches 
higher than the outside ground and should 
be underlaid with crushed stone or cin¬ 
ders. A board floor must be tight and 
should incline slightly from beneath the 
roosts toward the sunlit front. The roof 
of the building should be a watershed— 
never flat. A dry, sunny, airy poultry 
house will help greatly to prevent the 
question of vermin from presenting itself. 
In the construction of nests, coarse 
wire such as is used for coal sieves, makes 
a strong light support for the bottom. 
The passage of air through this wire bot¬ 
tom keeps the nesting material dry. 
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