Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-10-31
Keeping on Lice.

M. w. Neihart, of Nebraska City,
gives the following in the Nebraska
Farmer as his method of keeping his
poultry house free from lice:
my chicken houses all contain earth
floors. I drive stakes in the ground
for roosts to rest on. bore holes through
roost pole (Which is 2x4 ripped in
two, making a pole 2x2), and into top
Of stakes allowing a wire spike to go
through roost and into the stake. This
will hold the roost in place.
Don't allow the roosts to touch
your building anywhere. l leave these
stakes about two feet high. Now you
know full well that these mites always
leave the chicken towards the dawn of
morning and remain on the roost and
in the building until evening, when
they again attack the fowls as they set
tie down to rest. Results you know
and l need not repeat them, but will
say that these blood suckers are the
direct cause of bringing into the fiocks
of our land what is commonly called
cholera. Out of hundreds of cases of
supposed cholera examined by myself
l have yet to find my first of this
dreaded disease.
But to turn to our subject Now all
You have to do is pick up your roost,
take it outside for convenience, have
a common machine oil can filled with
gasoline and saturate pole completely,
also go inside and run some on top and
down the stakes. Repeat this a few
times and you will completely destroy
those mischief makers. Your house is
no doubt overrun with these mites. but
only doctor your ro0sts and you will
have them exterminated."
Shorthorns VS.. Scrubs.-A shorthorn
steer properly cared for can be made
to weigh 800 pounds in three years.
while a scrub will require i've years
to secure 200 pounds, and as a result
the shorthorn gains 500 pounds annu-
ally and the scrub 240 pounds annual
ly. Estimating shorthorns at 5A
cents a pound, the gain is annually
$26.25, and estimating the scrub at 4A
cents pound. the gain is annually
$1,000. or 1855 gain in favor of the
shorthorn. But let us note how the
case stands with both at the end Of the
year. | have stated that the short
horn gains 500 pounds a year, hence in
the three years it weighs 1900 pounds
and is worth $78.75; the scrub gains 2ao
pounds year. and in three wears
weighs 720 pounds and is worth 500. 60.
hence the difference in the value of the
steers at the expiration Of three wears
is $4S.15 in favor of the shorthorn. In
other words, the shorthorn at the exDi-
ration of three years is worth twice as
much as the scrub and 1855 over
Robert Mitchell.
Life OF the HOrse.-Speaking on the
subject of the longevity of the horse n
writer in one of our Boston exchanges
says: The natural life of a horse
must depend partly on its breeding
but quite as much on the kind of work
it ID set to do. An animal never driven
fast and thus strained or injured nv
hard roads will last to % years and do
good service. But if driven hard on
stone OF asphalt roadbeds it's feet Will
give out and the animal will soon be-
come worthless. Eli Wakelee of An
sonia. Conn. has cam of horses "A
and So years old which are yet in good
condition and do good work. He had
their photograph taken recently. and
will hang it in his parlor. MIR. Wake
Ice has worked this team in double
harness all spring and summer. plow-
ing. dragging and moving with them.
and they are yet in prime condition.
sleek and glossy IS most horses thu,
are young. He has worked them nor.
than twenty-five years. and ii is ev.-
dent that the team has neVe. been ...s
used"