Show Lice and Mites Hurt Egg Yield These Two To Poultry Parasites Parasites' J Require Different Tre Treatment Treat t- t ment to Kill Prepared rel r d by the tbt United State m of Agriculture Department Poultry p Sometimes ore are of many kinds s they multiply until they kill the he fowls on 00 which they But In prey the opinion of entomologists of ot the United States Department of Agriculture Agri Agri- culture parasites do even cen greater grenter InJury In In- Jury jUlY to the Industry by reducing the stunting the growth and checking the egg yield of fowls Lice and mites are the most frequent and widespread groups of ot eternal parasItes parasites para para- sites and these two t require entirely different ent methods method of treatment to rid i the fowls of their attacks because the two live under different conditions The lice exist exIt on the fowls Cowls and the mites live e In cr cracks and Ices crevices In nests and roosts Eradicating Lice For eradicating lice the Department Depart Depart- ment of ot Agriculture recommends ap ap- ap of sodium fluoride It kills all varieties of lice lice body body head and i feather This chemical may may be applied by dusting or by dipping Either the chemically or the commercial grades may be use used but the latter is cheaper and more easily obtained Young chicks require very little and anda a pound of powder costing about 50 cents should kill kilt the lice on a n flock of chickens Dipping the fowls Is still stilt easier and cheaper but It Is not wise vise to dip fowls unless the weather is warm A single treatment of every ery fowl by either the lie dusting or dipping method will completely eradicate all nil alllice lice Ilie e from the premises Destroying Mites For mites the procedure Is utterly different Mites do not live on the fowls by day but come out and nd suck their fill Gil of ot blood when the fowls Cowls are roosting First the poultry house must be cleaned thoroughly Trash nestIng nest nest- Ing lug material etc should be taken out and burned Then Theu go over the whole house thoroughly with crude petroleum um urn or using either a aspra aspray aspray spray spra pump or brush to apply the materiaL ma ma- Petroleum I is cheaper hut but the gets bets Into the cracks better bet bet- ter and lasts I Paint the ter and longer n er roosts anu let toe we petroleum or work Into er e every crack The mite killer should dry before the chickens go to roost There are other othel fowl parasites such as the scaly leg mites blue bugs bedbugs bed bed- bugs fleas and chiggers each of ot which may cause much loss these pests however are not so generally distributed as are arc the lice and mites This general distribution over the lie entire entire en tire Ure United S States tes and the pernicious attacks of mites and lice make these two two groups of outstanding importance |