The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-15

subscriber to your paper. | want TO
know the best remedy to destroy or get
rid of chicken mites. Also the best way
to prevent them from coming back. They
are awful bad. | send stamp Please
reply by return mail before it is too late.
They are about TO take my house. They
are all over the yard.
Answer-rhe first and eeatthing to do
in case Of mites, lice. feas and other
insect pests of the fowl yord is TO thor
oughly clean UP the entire infested prom
ises. Rake up and burn all rubbish. or
haul 1t away to a distance from tho
premises. WhiteWash with n wash
made of quick lime and water, with
per cent carbOlic acid In It. Spray with
kerosene or gasoline The latter is ex-
ceedngly effective. killing every insect
It touches. Rake out from underneath
your house and burn and bury the scrap
ings. Where the mites are found on the
tilnbers mop with kerosene or gasoline
Cno fire to be about. Scatter green black
walnut leaves all about. Grease the top
of the heads and sides of the necks of
chicks with carbolated vaseline. Puff
Persian insect powder into the feathers OF
the older fowls When YOU have got rid
OF them, be careful to permit no fowls
to come on your premises without close
inspection. Mites breed from mites and
from nothing else
% REMEDY FOR CHATS AND FLIES.
(2) CHLORIDE or LIME AND FLEAS.
c. W letter. Santue. s. CT "B. l..
NJ" Sylacauga Ala. asks for remedy
to prevent gnats from biting stock ana,
as | have seen no remedy given him go
far I will give him mine, which is not
expensive nor troublesome. taking INTO
consideration the good It does horse or
mule and how it saves q man s temper
when blowing as Il saves an animal
from kicking and stamping breaking
down crops and itself being in a bad
temper 1t Is for the large gnats that
often cat the hair off ana make swollen
humps under an animal keep cup of
grease any Kind, fried meat lard or
hogs foot. and put small quantity Of
kerosene (but the kerosene can be loft
out only # makes the other go farther)t
or some cotton seed oil can he put IN,
and every morning. with little rag mop,
] grease the horse or mule along under
its belly little in the flank. between
the fore legs. in the ears and sometimes
under the iawG-iust the places whore the
gnats re moro likely to bite. IT does not
take much. and n small application Will
answer about day. ANY man who
plows knows what trouble a lot Of gnats
eating q mule or horse up gives him. /
have quit blowing and went te the house
to get grease for muio that gnats seem
ed to hurt exceptionally bad. TO relieve
him This is The surest remedy I have
ever tried is harmless and is a humane
act toward faithful and valuable dumb
brute Perhaps Won might mix IN axle
grease or any cheap grease The secret
is no insect can 1.-Two In grease
. Now MI Editor. VIII you tell me
if chloride Of lime will rout fleas from
stanrnlcs and from under houses? | think
7 have seen whore IL was good. Is It
hurtfuI to people or stock?
Answer / suggest that the kerosene
is an important part Of the mixture that
You recommend for snats. flies. etc, on
stock would also add little carboic
acid. Axle grease will answer just as
well rs lard or other grease.
. have not heard that chloride Of lime
would drive away heas 1t is not at all
harmful to man or beast