Show comfortable HENS ALWAYS LAY WELL do everything you can to make your hens comfortable it if their health and vitality are kept at the highest level it will add many eggs to lour our basket if your hens are worried by lice and mites then they cannot lay the maximum number ot of eggs an ounce of pre prevention estfon just now Is worth a pound of cure later inter on mills Is good poultry gospel according to D 11 liall hall extension poultry specialist who ho warns us that with the warm weather eather coming coining on we will have more trouble witti with lice nad and mites than we had ad during the cooler months and that everybody should take extra precaution at this time of the year to get rid of these thesa parasites mites can be controlled by spraying the house with whitewash to which has been added enough disinfectant to make a 5 per cent solution A good coal tar product such as creosote or tar oleum may be used as a disinfectant Car carbolic bolle sold acid Is also a 0 good in spraying the house be sure to spray every square inch of surface it if you miss a few mites then you will have a multitude to deal with the following week it Is also a good idea to paint the perch poles with a mixture of equal parts of kerosene and used engine oil lice are found on the individual hens they spend their entire life on the body laying their digs eggs and sticking them to the feathers in small colonies ahey can be found in the fluff feathers and under the wings no hen will go about her business of producing eggs with any degree of em clency with alth lice covering her body the best method of getting rid of lice Is by dusting with a good insect pow der sodium fluoride Is a good parasite killer take a pinch of sodium fluoride and dust it into the luff fluff feathers under each wing on the neck back and body of the fowl work the powder doan into the feathers to the skin another good powder can be made from one pound of snuff and one half pound of sulphur mixed with one gallon of road dust or ashes it is a good idea to build a dust box and allow each hen to dust herself look over the heng bens la in about ten days to see it if all the lice were killed and it if necessary give them another good dusting |