The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
TO Exterminate Parasites Of Fowls.

GONE ounce of prevention is better
than pound of cure" says the old adage.
In regard to parasitic insects of poultry,
this is particularly true. 1t is much less
trouble to keep them down, so as to be
almost entirely clear of them, than it is
to fight host of vermin. said almost,
for there is, no doubt, remnant always
remaining of some lice, for no sooner are
the ordinary cleanliness and vigilance re-
Taxed, than they again show themselves.
If fowls are kept in damp place without
dust or dry earth, these insects imme-
diately appear in large numbers.
The methods of destroying most of
then. are very easy. The pOll-tick is pre-.
vented or got rid of by slightly greasing
the heads of the chicks as soon as Matched.
The same process, repeated once a week
for about two or three weeks, will carry
them beyond further danger. will not
on this subject give the Latin names of in.
sects, as find so much variableness and
so few varieties described that it is we'll to
employ the terms in common use. OF
the varieties that still remain on the fowl,
there are two distinct classes: Lice that
suck the blood from the fowls body, all
of which have their mouths near the ends
of their noses, and another class that live
on and eat the feathers. These latter
have their mouths under the middle of
the head, and of them there are several
varieties, differing from each other in
form, color, and size. Both kinds can be
got rid of by busting sulphur we'll into
the feathers of the birds. If the chickens
are young and under the hen, dust the
hen thoroughly with sulphur, and, pro-
vided the usual dust bath he supplied,
this treatment will keep the fowls clean,
if repeated about once a week.
OF the gape-worm, it is difficult to say
ANYTHING positive, though of course pre-
vention is best. In order to get rid of
this pest, the surest way, when a yard is
once infestest, is to remove the fowls en-
tircly away from the contaminated ground.
1 know of a yard that was infested for
many wears. One year the chickens were
all taken across brook to another part OF
the farm and not allowed to visit the old
ground until too large to get the disease.
No trace Of the gapes has been seen there
since then, although several years have
elapsed.
Some poultry authorities say that there
is connection between the gape-worm
and kind of louse, and that the latter
either introduces or extends the cape
worm; but, after some experiments, an
satisfied no such connection exists. U
the remedies for gapes l cannot say much
as there are as many advanced with a:
much positiveness as there are cures fol
the toOthache. If attended to in time, thu
worms can sometimes be drawn out witt
twisted hOrse-hair or thin feather
Care must be taken that the hair enters
the windpipe, as the worms are there ant
not in the throat. Details of this process!
would make too long chapter, SO
simply generalize the subject until proper
w treated. Carbolic acid fumes inhalet
6y the chicks, either in a box or by hold
ing the chick over the acid, heated hot il
a spoon over a lamp, will also sometimes
dislOdge them; but when the worms &c
low down in the throat, where the wind
pipe branches, there is not much hope TO
the sufferer.
The housewife or spider, that lives il
the wood work of dirty nests, is easily 60
rid of by cleanliness, whitewash or petro
leum and fumigation. A good way is t
saturate all the inside woodwork will
crude petroleum. For scaly-leg itch, soal
the legs with kerosene oil, holding tn
toes upward, so that the oil will run wei
under the scales. Two or three applica
lions generally effect cure. Intestine
worms are dislodged by a detection o
NORWOOD. or the leaves may be cut vi
and given in food, or pill made of aloe
may be administered; but these pests ar
rarely numerous enough to be of seriou
onsequence.-Henry Halcs, in Rxra
Neso Yorker