Show nl f I Q j t Hw t to i I f Raise j i Poultry I i y Dr L D LeGear V SI Si St SSt S I i St S Louis Mo t i Dr LeG LeGear r is i a graduate of or thet the I t I Ontario Veterinary c I of 1892 Thirty sic years inary practice on diseases of live i stock lock and anil poultry Eminent lent au au- au I thorny on poultry and stock pout paul I itry try breeder Noted author andi and I i popular lecturer J ARTICLE IX LET US SPRAY Kill Bill the Vermin or the Vermin Will l Kill Your Profits Fowls Profits Fowls Tha t Are re Free From com Vermin Lay Hettel Bette r nd Resist Disease e More Easily Editors Editor's This Note This is s another story stor y in a series of 52 stores on poultry raising written by the well welt known national poultry authority Dr L D LeGear V S of St Louis The en- en en tire entire series will appear in this paper Our readers art are ur urged ed to read them carefully and clip them out for future reference Not lon long ag agos ago I s was asked asked by an amateur poultry raiser whom I know sli slightly if I would look over his hie flock a- a and see Ice what made them so droopy droop dispirited and They thenay wert all outa pep pcp 1 was the way nay he put it It took moment's only a mom mom- ent's examination to disclose reason the rea- rea rea son for fOI affairs this stat state of af af- af fairs His hens being ing were just about be- be ing in ten 1 UI up by chicken lice I asked to see sec the hen house and what I I saw was what is all too often seen An old roughly toughly built buill shed had been henhouse hastily converted into n hen house thousand To sa say there were ten thou thou- sand hiding hilling places for vermin would be a most conservative estimate No o i attempt at sanitation or had ever eyer been made Ancient table scraps decomposition in various stages of I position proved attractive tidbits for fOl myriads layabout of flies Oies Mouldy straw lay I about on the he dirt floor door and dropping dropping- boards drop ings bin being bing heard about the drop drop- ings served cd to still further befoul the already disgusting dis usting Ii litter U r In short j horrible If I had wanted a particularly hor hor- horrible j f example of almost anything on should have found it here I 1 really marveled that the poor bins bids had har been so lucky as 40 o suiTe suffer nothing worse than their painful burdens of lice Turning to my mv acquaintance I said Charley there arc are a 1 lot of things that ought to be done clone here but I have a little story that will help you to remember one of the most import import- important ant Then I told him that story about the mohr skunk and several of her little ones who were were being pur pur- gained sued pursued by a hunter The hunter gain gain- gained ain ain- ed cd ground quite rapidly which alarm alarmed alarmed e ed the youngsters not a little Just be patient children admonished the mother Ill tell you rou what to dowhen do doi dowhen dowhen i when the times timE'S comes The hunter continued to gain and finally the i mother mothel called a sudden halt As the hunter seeing success at hand hanI han plunged badly forward the mother mothr skunk remarked calmly and confidently confidently Now children let Jet us spray I j Of course the first thing to do was to make a thorough clean up of wasI thee the I whole place Then Them a stron strong solution I of Dip and anel Disinfectant was sprayed I into every crack and crevice Lime I was dusted liberally over O the dirt I floor in order to neutralize its sour odor and make the place still more uncomfortable for or lice mites bed bed- I bugs bedbugs bugs and other insect pests Then the hens were dusted well with Lice Pow Pow- Powder der bod hodl to kill the parasites on their hod- hod bodI I I 1 lea ies and the dustin dusting was repeated in seven days time Now whenever I meet my friend Charley he invariably greets me ine me witha with a gesture which indicates the manipulation of a spray pump and with an air of mock pity ly pH Doctor excl exclaims ims Doctor let us splay He Hea a also so has hag a tale to tell of a reborn flock that is taking a new interest in life liCe and actually seems to be tr try try- trying try trying ing to make up for the time Lime they lost before Charley learned his lesson On While this case was an extreme one the same story is being enacted many times over and not always s 's with witha a happy ending With proper construction con con- con construction sh of houses and equipment proper sanitary arrangements and an occasional clean up and disinfecting ting campaign the problem of vermin is seldom cn d Where those three points are not observed cd ho how ever vermin take p pos pos- possession pos possession session and profits suffer sulTer with th the poultry Lice fleas ticks mites bedbugs bed bed- bedbug's bugs bed bugs bug's and many other pests in infinite variety either suck the life fife blood right out of the their l unwilling hosts or cause almost unbearable irritation In Iii either case the fowl owl is seriously weakened and the various bodily functions including that of egg Jay Jay- lay laying ing i g arc me seriously hampered Further Further- Furthermore Furthermore more while parasites arc are seldom di- di directly directly di directly responsible for death except in cases of extreme neglect thy they ell do often sap the vitality to such an anex an ex- ex extent extent ex extent tent tint that fowls become cas easy prey y to disease These pests arc preventable Itis It Itis Itis is no na disgrace tu to have them show up on your our premises but it is a u dis- dis dis grace to to let lot them remain Not Kot only that aside from humane considers considers- consideration considerations tion bons s which are too plain to need emphasis it is mighty poor business to take a cut in the profits of any business when the cause of such a acut acut acut cut can so easily casily be removed remo Cop Copyright 1920 1020 by Dr L D LeGear V S r rI l- l I |