Show RIDDING HOUSES OF VERMIN Outline of of- f Method Recommended by Poultry Specialists of Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture The following method of ridding hen hn houses of mites and lice when the weather conditions are such as to permit of the birds being kept outside the house for five five or or six hours Is recommended recommended recommended rec rec- by poultry specialists inthe In Inthe Inthe the United States department of agri agri- culture Close all an the doors doors' and windows and see that there thero are no cracks or any other openings op to admit air Set an Iron lion vessel on n gravel or sand near th the center of the house Place In the vessel a handful of shavings or straw saturated with kerosene and on these sprinkle sulphur at the rate of about one pound to every 00 or square feet of floor space Instead of u using the shavings and kerosene the sulphur ma may be s saturated with wood alcohol When everything else Is In ln readiness readiness readiness readi readi- ness light the material and hastily lea leave ve the house In case any anxiety is felt about fire a n glance through a window will show whether everything Is all an right There Is very ery little danger danger danger dan dan- ger of fire when proper proper precautions precautions hAve li been taken to have plenty of soil beneath the vessel After three or four hours throw v all an the doors and the tube windows wide open to drive out the sulphur fumes thoroughly Then let let the fowls In one by one As each enters enters enters en en- catch It and dust It well with Insect Insect insect In In- sect powder which will destroy the lice on the birds Tobacco dust Is also good to use Instead of Insect powder The birds and house have nave now been freed tred from vermin for the present but the eggs of the Insects have not been destroyed and In a week another swarm will be hatched patched out There There- f iF f Fumigating Hen House to Get Rid of Mites and Lice fore It will be necessary to repeat the operation once or twice before the thep p puts pests are titre exterminated After this care should be used to see sec that no no strange fowl Is admitted to the house or jard yard without out having been thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- rid of lice for one lousy hen will contaminate all the rest |