Show TP I COMFORTABLE HENS HENSAL AL ALWAYS WAYS LAY WELL VELL Do everything you can cnn to m make le your liens hens comfortable If It their health and vitality lity are kept at the highest level le it will add many eggs to your jour our basket If It your hens are worried by bylI lI lice e and mites then they cannot lay Jay laythe laythe the maximum number of or eggs An ounce of prevention Just now is worth wortha a pound of ot cure later on This mils is good poultry gospel accordIng accord accord- In lag Ing to D. D II U. Hall extension poultry specialist warns warns us that with the Warm arm weather cather coming on we will have more trouble with lice and mites than we had bad during the cooler r months and that everybody e should take extra precaution pre caution at this time of the year to get rid of at these parasites Jilt oscan can b be controlled il by sprayIng spray spray- Ing lag the house with whitewash to which has been added enough disinfectant disinfectant dis to make a 5 per cent tion A good coal tar coal tar product t such as creosote te or may may be used as a disinfectant Carbolic acid is also good In spraying the house be sure to spray er c every square Inch of or surface If It you miss a n few mites then tIlen you ou will hove have a multitude to deal with the following week It is also a good Idea to paint the perch poles with a n mixture of ot equal parts of ot kerosene kerosene kero kero- sene and md used engine oil all 11 Lice are found on the hens They spend their entire life Ufe on the body laying laing their eggs and sticking them to the feathers in small colonies They hey can be found in the fluff feathers and under tinder the wings No hen lien will go about her business of producing e eggs gs with any degree of or efficiency with lice covering cring her bod body Tho best method of getting rid of ot lice Is by dusting with a good Insect pow v der Sodium fluoride Is a good parasite para para- parasite site killer Take Toke a n pinch of at sodium fluoride and dust It Into the tile fluff feathers under each win wing on the neck back and body of the fowl W Work rk the powder down Into the thc feather feath- feath er to skin skin- Another good good powder can be made from one pound of ot snuff and one half pound of ot sulphur mixed with one gallon of at road dust or ashes ashes- It Itis is a n good idea to build bund a n dust box an and allow each hen to dust herself herset Look over the hens ens' ens ensIn In In about ten tenda da days s 's to see If nil all the lice were killed and if necessary give ghe them another good dusting |