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Show Clean out the house at least once a week, use this style of perches, sprinkle the floor every morning with a disinfectant made of sifted ashes mixed with about one-fourth their bulk of salt, the whole moistened with kerosene; whitewash the interior occasionally, oc-casionally, and there will be little trouble with vermin. When using this "powder" be careful not to get any in the nests, as the eggs will absorb the odor of the coal oil and the oil will also prevent their hatching. This disinfectant in cheap, and effective. SOMETHING NEW IN PERCHES Two-by-Twos Hung From Ceiling by Use of Wire and Fastened at End Are Excellent. Many persons use hanging perches for poultry because they are more sanitary. Lice and mites cannot get on them unless they leave the fowls. But I never have seen any perches constructed like mine that were not also swinging perches, writes Horace E. Wolcott of Lubbock county, Texas, In Missouri Valley Farmer. I long ago learned that it prevents much nervousness among the flock at night if the perches do not sway. It is better economy to make the perches of good material. I find two by two-inch lumber about right, or two by fours ripped in two lengthways. length-ways. My perches are eight feet long, making them lack a foot of touching at either end, which is about right. Round the two sharp corners on top, and finish smooth. It is much easier for a fowl's foot to curve over a rounded round-ed surface not too wide than to grasp a square, sharp edge. Get some large screw-eyes or barbed-wire barbed-wire staples, and some smooth wire, as small as is possible consistent with i i 1 T V"' -Ptrcte Liceless and Sanitary. 6trength. Screw a part of the eyes Into the overhead joists or in the ceiling, ceil-ing, one eye for each end of each perch. In each eye fasten a wire long enough to hang down to within two and one-half feet of the floor. Put a screw eye near each end of every perch, at the upper edge. Fasten the hanging wires into these, and your perches are hung. The perches should be an equal distance apart, and all on a level. Next fasten a screw-eye in each ei.d of every perch, and put other screw-eyes screw-eyes in the walls between perches. Fasten a length of wire Into the first screw eye on the wall, thread it through the next eye in the wall, continuing con-tinuing alternately until all perchjs re fastened to each other and to he wall. Then by fastening the perchos at the other end, they are complete nd will not swing nor sway. |