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Show I POULTRY BITS- ! CLEAN AND SPRAY TO CONTROL LICE Preventive Pleasures Should L'e Taken Before Summer. Sur i-ys, m:"l by the poultry de-i.iiiini de-i.iiiini nl .if ti:! North Carolina .State j i.-i! I-. show lliat inure than 5:5 per ; ci-ui if nil poultry (lucks in Nui th Car-1 Car-1 ulina ni-H infested will) either lice or ; mi ". s. I "'i'hc:;!- pests multiply very quickly iluii.'c: the hot months and for that j ri'a.iuu control measures should be 1 tiikcii before the summer sets in." says 1 Ir. I'.. V. Kniipp, bead of the depart-' depart-' i i i : 1 1 1 . ''The henhouse should be given 1 a thorough denning with a 4 per cent coal t;ir dip. All cracks and crevices ! should lie sprayed and the perches painted with a pure dip or creosote. New scratch litter and nesting mate-I mate-I rial should be put in before the hens are allowed to use the house. If these precautions are not taken, the sitting hen will le killed and the small chicks will weaken and die." The adult fowl should be dusted with sodium fluoride. This should be used sparingly as there Is some danger of injuring the skin. A pinch of the material should be held between the thumb and finger and worked among the feathers. This operation shouUKbe continued until the entire body has been covered, and should be repeated in live days If all the lice were not killed. All brooder houses, henhouses or any place that the chickens roost should be gone over with the 4 per cent solution of coal tar and where possible the hens transferred to another house during dur-ing the cleaning. Doctor Kaupp recommends that new houses be built, especially where the old houses have been in use over a lung period and are thoroughly infested infest-ed with the pests. The old houses should then be torn down and burned, he says. |