Show poultry houses badly infested with vermin when a poultry house becomes badly infested with mites it Is hard to control them with one application of any material mites may gather in the walls and around the chii belling and under the dropping boards or behind insulating material in tile the walls they depend on the blood of the ro bird as a means to live and if the perches are treated about once each week for a u few weeks all the mites in the house will eventually gather there and be killed the nests often need considerable spraying especially if they consist of boxes nailed on the side walls of the house by adding a little to the kerosene oil or engine oil the mixture will have greater powers for I 1 destroying mites it may be best to paint the roosts boosts dropping boards and nests with clear clean if the side walls are rough and infested with mites it may be best to whitewash them to sepi seal up a lot of crevices and make the surface as smooth as possible when the roosts boosts are protected with spray dope often enough to keep down mites they are not so apt to become In trenched in other parts of the house |