Millard County Chronicle | 1912-04-11 | Page 2 | Much Damage Done by Lice

MUCH DAMAGE DONE BY LICE Poultry Yards and Houses Must Be Kept Clean at All Tlmea to Keep . Injurious Vermin Away. Should you enter the poultry yard and find a chirk asleep Instead of at work, wrltea Kmma Stacy In an exchange, ex-change, you had better look for the . trouble, and without doubt you will j discover the lice; or. If the chicks do not grow as you think they should, look for the trouble. It may be the same old lice. When tho chicks are hatched It Is . an excellent plan to grease the bead and under the wings with pure lard-not lard-not enough to chill the chic ks. Many have found to their sorrow ihat various mixtures of coal oil. van-line . and Insect powder will kill the chicks as well as the Insects. The yards and houses must be clean at all tiroes through the hot months, or you can t keep the lice sway, and lie and success do not go the same way. Taint the brood cKipi. . the rent boxea and the roontg; Indeed. , everything but tbe chickens should get a washing of the mixture. There Is no worse drawhark to the poultry business than lice and other Insects which render the life of tbeL fowl most miserable. I