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Show r' ; KEEP CHICKENS FREE v OF MITES AND LICE Chicken mites do not often kill a fowl but they sap the vitality of . a hen and weaken her so that she lays few or. no eggs and is readily overcome over-come by minor ailments. It is very important that chickens be kept free of this pest. The mite has a gray color with brown sopts on its back when not filled with blood. It lives and breeds in cracks and corners in and around; the perches and nests; going on the fowls- usually at night only long enough to suck its body full of blood, then crawling off to some secjuded place. The accumulation of dropping and filth in a poorly ventilated, damp j house affords very favorable conditions condi-tions for this very numerous enemy. Keep the building well ventilated and clean. Spray the entire inside twice a year with whitewash, made in the ordinary way with one pint of crude carbolic acid to each gallon of whitewash; white-wash; then paint the perches once a week with kerosene after adding about 6 ounces of carbolic acid to a gallon. Keep this mixture in a machine ma-chine oil can and soak thoroughly all cracks or corners that show an indication in-dication of mites as often as they are seen, and the. building and fowls will soon be free from one of tlie smallest small-est but without doubht one of the worst of poultry pests. Lice live and breed on the bodies of the fowls and feed on the surface swales around the base of the feathers. feath-ers. If the fowls have a dust bath ctr dust wallow there will be but a few lice on their bodies. An occasion- al dusting with some good lice pow-dct pow-dct during which the fowl is held by i the legs and the powder sifted f roiji a perforated can and rubbed -well into the feathers with the hand, will aid greatly in freeing the bodies ctf the chickens from this pests. A good powder may be made by taking one part cresol to three gasoline. Mix this thoroughly, then adding enough trnfibitxl plaster, a little at a time, stirring' continually, to take up all the likrui-ii. Blue ointment is also an excellent remedy for lice. This is a poison nnd should be handled carefully. care-fully. TpJvc a. small piece about the Size of a pica and rub it well into the base of the feathers on the abdomen in the 'fluff jot below the vent. Scaly leg-, which is caused by a very tiny insa:t getting iunder the sca'es j of the legs forcing '.them out and ; causing the legs to appear rough and knotty-, is very common among the gijneral purpose fowls. This f disease is not . noticed by many -un-I til tbe Ifgs are .swollen so much that the fo'vls can Jiardly walk. It is easily controlled by rubbing the legs in. tht? early stages of the disease vit'n. lard and 'kerosene equal parts, 'jr by lhc application of vaseline or ether oily mixtures Byron Alder, i I'oudt r.vman, Utah Agricultural Ex-jjpcrjrnent Ex-jjpcrjrnent Station. |