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Show GET RID OF HARMFUL MITES Parasites Sap All Life Out of Hens and Cut Down Egg Supply Have Thorough Cleaning. If you are going to be a successful poultryman, young man, you must get after the mites. They sap all the life out of the hens, and cut down the egg supply enormously. They kill off large numbers of the most promising chicks. They are the worst enemies with which your flock has to contend. But you can get rid of them if you will. Have a thorough house cleaning some fine day. Clean up the dirty floor. Take out the roosts and scrape them, and clean out the dirty nests. If they are too badly infested, burn them up and make some new ones. Brush down the cobwebs from the corners. Then take a spray pump and spray the whole inside of the poultry house, getting into all the cracks and corners corn-ers with a mixture of one part crude carbolic acid to ten of kerosene. This kills any of the mites which may have fled to the cracks and crevices for safety. After this is dry, put on the whitewash. It may be put on with the same spray pump, but it sticks better and lasts longer if it is put on with a brush. Lice and mites can't stand whitewash. After the whitewash has thoroughly dried, refit the house with clean roosts and nests, and put some clean straw on the floor. If you wish, you can dust the hens off with lice powder before be-fore admitting them to the house. Repeat Re-peat dusting again In about a week, or better, apply the blue ointment. It is a very good time to do the job. If you will do this you will find that the lice have departed for some other henhouse hen-house whose owner is not so good a poultryman as you. |