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Show j CARE OF THE POULTRY H0USf Lice and Mites Cause More LosseJ 1 Than All Other Things Com-bined Com-bined Spray Is Urged. (By J. S. JEFFREY.) It is quite possible to have the best poultry kept in well-built houses, well fed, and still not get any profit or pleasure from them. In too many cases where a good start has been made the houso is neglected and allowed al-lowed to become filthy and infested with mites. It may be said that tilth and mites generally go together, for while a house that is kept fairly clean Side Elevation of Poultry House. may be infested with mites, it is very seldom that a dirty house will be found to. be free from these pests. Lice and mites cause more losses among poultry than all other things combined. Poultry houses should be so ar-i ranged inside that the poultryman. can keep down the mites without an undue expenditure of time and energy. en-ergy. Mites live in a house and must be killed there. Dusting the hens will never get rid of them. The best means of getting rid ot mites in the houses is to spray thoroughly thor-oughly with kerosene emulsion. This s'jould be done twice with an interval of from five to seven days between the sprayings. The emulsion is made as follows: Cut up one pound of soap and dissolve It in hot water; while the water is hot, stir in two gallons of kerosene and continue stirring for fifteen tO(. twenty minutes. It is important to have the kerosene, soap and water L well mixed, especially if it is not ts be used at once. To this mixture add'' seventeen gallons of water. This f .,, ,.. ,. . ... ' Two-Compartment Trap Nests, Showing Show-ing "Stop Louse" Roo6t Hangers Above. makes a 10 per cent, emulsion. Some recommend 15 per cent., but we have found 10 per cent, efficient in killing the mites. Kerosene used on the roost once a week in hot weather will help to J keep down both mites and lice, Jr put on a short time before the hensT go to roost, some of it will get on the feathers and will kill and drive away lice. ..Care must be taken not to get too much on the fowls, or i will blister them and this will stop the hens from laying just as much as the lice will. |