Show TO exterminate THE MITES task may be performed by use of lice killing liquid or kerosene and by burning sulphur mites are the smallest kind of lico and are BO small that they quite often escape notice they live on the fowls at night but leave in the morning and hide in the woodwork of the ben house particularly the boosts roosts aceta and nearby woodwork the way to exterminate them is to paint the in aldea of the nests the boosts roosts and the roost supports etc with some good lice killing liquid every two weeks or with kerosene once a week then drive the hens out doors on a warm afternoon close the house up tight and burn enough sulphur in it to fill tho building absolutely full of dense blue fumes and keep it closed for an hour or two these fumes will get all through the bouse into the cracks etc and will kill the mites this should be repeated a week later |