| Show ANCE NECESSARY TO KEEP CHICKEN HOUSE FREE OF MITES 01 PON A R ZA e 7 4 Z nag g A z ikall tal coops a hand atomizer V raisers are all too familiar f common red or gray mite I 1 dests poultry houses in genie e who are making it a specialty ry raising have comparatively uble with mites or at least ip p them reduced to a point her ey are of little importance ther hand farmers and others se be poultry as an incident to iterations frequently find their house s overrun by mites ai g presence ot of mites lt tack k of 0 this bloodsucking blood sucking of an insidious nature mature which A at t readily draw attention to its at k and often the boultt N sva avae re of an infestation until he ted to it liy by the irritation mites on his own awn body at itT torning tn contact with the d LOOPS coops the presence of the 14 readily ie be determined how 5 the detection of small aress areas epards aels specked with black and adms lims though dusted with salt and Is the excrement of the patch are hidden in adjacent n st rough places more careful cration will nill reveal masses of 0 tta jh hiding together with anith their nad fl the silvery skins cast by the B moderately infested poultry inthe the injury to the fowls is not r 1 apparent but the constant boss oss and irritation are shown iii eased egg production and the tradition edition ot of the alie fowls flesh in infested coops it is not un ifor tor the chickens to become r rand r and weak with pale comb and al CLI sitting hens desert their nd thus ruin the eggs or as Is 1 E ie e case they are found dead on oil jt being killed au outright aright by the of f thousands of mites in ex 7 ancs aies a considerable number of maccumb g rac cumb even though not sit od nd all are so weakened as to 11 IF if susceptible to various disis to tile tact fact that mites feed athe the night and secrete them aln n cracks and crevices durin during 9 presence very often is ked ed until a very heavy infesta infests digs s developed jn in such cases 0 uld be attacked though not hard to kill the it tob obstacle stacle Is the difficulty of githern in their hiding places abbs will not hot control them as iti t only onla the few aich remain during the daytime destroyed first step necessary to destroy tes ites is to get rid of the dilding W tc tar far as possible the roosts boosts ile be taken down mid nd all annec boards awards and boxes removed in y I 1 infected n if ested houses the mites are d in all parts of tile the built tile the root roof where they ss 9 numerous the infestations rare re confined to the roots find and lid and the walls immediately ad y for small coops a hand jr r will suffice for applying in es as sprays but for larger ya a bucket pump knapsack hor ar barrel pump is desirable er coarse spray should lie be ap rom all angles aud abd thoroughly 1 into the cracks the floor also 1 be treated as mary many mites fall floor when tile the roosts boosts are being bests ats conducted by the united department of agriculture 1 tate last two years a consider j bumber aber of materials used as eave h ave proved effective one of 0 called wood preservers was effective and its for or repelling power lasts for As this material Is rather give lve about ft 1 per gallon ea llon end 5 heavy to spray well it Is ad ato to reduce it with equal parts asene ene jle petroleum Is almost as erac ins its hilling lill ling power for sev k arid and in most localities it la Is cheap eap it will spray better if 1 1 with one part of kerosene to arts of crude oil as a been found that one thor application of either of chev Is 1 will completely eradicate tes tea from an infested chicken but ordinarily it Is advisable e ft a second application a month the lie first and in some cases a E treatment adment Is required thes bent nt applications may be made mad brush ru ill using the alie materials un arid and covering only y the roasts roosts will suffice for applying insect insecticides their supports the walls adjoining and the nests if they are infested this method of application Is effect the for the first treatment also it if the houses are not heavily infested poultry should be kept out of tile the treated buildings until tile material is well licit dried into the wood using pure kerosene pure kerosene and kerosene emulsion in double the lie strength ordinarily to plants will destroy all mites lilt hit but these substances have not body enough to destroy those mites which are in more protected situations and several applications at ten day internals inte nals are needed to destroy all the mites arsenical dip such as Is used to stroy zt roy cattle ticks has been found fairly satisfactory for use against chicken mites several applications are required to eradicate the mites from poultry houses |
