Show lA A tY V T t TO CHECK INROADS OF POULTRY LOUSE Eradication Simple Matter Specialist Says By fly R n K h n ORA GRAY Y zt nIn n Ohio State Stale Controlling the Inroads of the tho poultry louse upon the production of the farm Hock flock Is a relatively sim sim- simple simple simple task The first symptoms or of orlice lice Infestation are droopiness low low- lowered lowered ered wings and ruffled feathers In young oung chicks diarrhea follows and chickens often orten die In la n 11 few V days das or In older chicks they sometimes fall prey to various outer other diseases Mature birds sometimes are very heavily Infested without showing eho much ill III effects but usually the egg yield Is likely to decrease with a heavy 1 lice Infestation In other cases the mature bird may lose weight and die llie as a n result of or these little rapacious warriors Perhaps one of the best ways or of controlling lice Is by the use ot of nicotine sulphate This Tills material Is applied to the top part of ot the perches just before the birds go to roost The essential thing Is to get getas getas getas as small a 0 quantity as possible along the roosts and yet have some along the entire length of ot the roost Although nicotine sulphate Is very expensive It has been found that a teacupful of ot the material Is enough to treat tub the perches In InI a I house with witha a capacity of ot birds A second application should be made some eight or ten days after the first In order to destroy the newly hatched lice |