Show Whitewash Favored for Cleaning Chicken Coop Because mites breed so rapIdly the tho hen house becomes uninhabitable by summer if preventive measures are not taken In the spring Mites can live Uve for months without blood bloo so that closing the poultry house during the summer will not completely starve them out This explains why they can live through the winter and be ber r to breed the next next spring A AlJ lJ house can be kept absolutely free from mites Clean out aU all the old nests Clean up all litter On the floor and burn it Paint the roosts and dropping boards with undiluted commercIal com com- mercIal liquid Uce lice-killer or with crude petroleum Apply to the entire length ot of the roosts top side and under also where the roosts join the wall in June and In August Spray Spra the entire Interior ot of the coop with disinfectant whenever you clean It Whitewashing and cleanliness largely prevent poultry disease and the re red mite as American Poultry Journal Journal |