The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-05-20

Ifyou knew what lice and gapes cost
YOU Hn money last year, you would
stop blowing for the day, and DO some
poultry work. lf your fowls are thus
afflicted. the best OF care otherwise, will
avail little. as sou Will get few eggs,
fowls will consume more food, chicks
will grow slowly, or else sleep or
Drapen themselves TO death. In the
South these pests are most disastrous
and unle.. controlled poultry-keeping
isa loosing proposition. II lice and
games are boz control now, you have
some heroic lighting to do once the up
per hand Is yours. future work is light
70 maintaio it. Give your fowls pro-
per care. have these matters under con-
trol. and you viii understand the pleas
ures and profits Of poultry-keepine
.Itis not necessary TO discuss tie doz-
ems of varieties of lice; it will be sui
ncient TO divide them into CD lice pro
per- and (2I mites. The first stay con-
tinually ON the fowl, day aud night;
mites inhabit the crevices Of the hem
house. coops, nest-boxes, and roosts
during the day, infesting the fowls,
and getting i'm their deadly work at
night IL given the chance TO wallow
I'm mellow earth, the fowls will free
themselves of lice, but against mites
they are powerless, and must have
human assistance. 10 is possible and
necessary 90 have this matter under
satisfactory control, but the fight must
20 ON a. long as we have birds and
birds nest within a mile of our hen
houses aud co0ps. The method indicat
ed last month is satisfactory, but labor
Gus; it was given because it required on
ly such thingsas are readily p%rocurable.
il should De carried out at least three
time. a year. The modern and better
method is To- have always on hand a
"liouid lice killer" a small sprayer.
and some good lice powder. Give the
spring white-washingas advised. spray
the liquid i'm the crevices, nest boxes
under the straw coops and on the
ro0sts every month, clean out the hen
house every week, and scrape out a feT
inches of the dirt floor, replacing it by
fresh dirt In the late summer. Thi
method is cheap, effective, no
laborious, and very profitable, Follow
it''and know that your fowls are no
troubled with lice. The "lice killer
iu eyaporaung generates a gas that fill
the house, killing both lice and mites
With reference to gapes, ! can onl
give you the best information ] have
as. go far, ! nave not had DO 10 dies
with. 1 fpossible, prevent 1T. Theg
is aspecles of earth-worm that frequent
ground run over 10y fowls for two q
more years This worm is eaten b
chicks. produces "gapes-woims' tina
fasten themselves in the wind pipe
and eventually close it and the chick
career. unless dislodged. Next seaso
j shall raise all ofmy chickens in th
orchard, and allow the yard whei
chicks have been raised for two veal
To become purified. Flowing III
ground mp, or covering with lime f'
some weeks, would serve the same pa
pose. The best treatment, ! can su.
gest for afflicted chicks, is to swab q
throat and windpipe well with a feati
er dipped i'm a mixture Of equal par
of sweet OH, turpentine and~keroser
oil. until chicks is relieved Cor dead
40 chicks that has eve had a bad ca
of the gapes is fit for breeding or ca
ing. Don't have it; prevent it.
j. II. G.. w.