Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-08-28
KIN Chicken Pests.

Chicken Pests.
patches and seem to hide on the
darker parts of the house.
A little kerosene oil poured into
the cracks and crevices about the
roosts will usually cause them to
swarm" out, and, even though none
are seen In the house, it Is we'll to
test, in this way, for them.
Treatment consists of either thor
oughly fumigating or spraying the
house. Fumigation, however, will
not be successful unless the house
can be tightly closed and the fol-
lowing plan followed:
Remove all litter, droppings or
other filth from the floor, nests, etc.
Then, having tightly closed all win
dows and doors, burn two or three
pounds Of sulphur in shallow dish,
being careful to guard against fire
| by putting the dish containing the
dislnfectant into a large basin and
putting this basin In a larger dish
containing water. Leave the house
tightly closed for two or three
hours and then open all doors and
! windows. Air the house thoroughly
before allowing the hens to return
to It, Remember that successful
fumigation is deadly to any kind of
animal life, and so keep all hens
away from the house until 1t is thor
oughly aired.
The second method Of insect con-
troll is by spraying, and in most
houses this proves much more salts
factory. The most common mate
rails for spraying are whitewash,
| kerosene oil, any Of the coal tar dis
1nfectants, or crude carbolic acid,
and various combinations of these
deodorants and disinfectants. An eff
fective spraying solution may be
made by mixing fresh whitewash and
crude carbolic acid in the proportion
| of one gallon Of the former to one
| pint Of the latter.
AS kerosene penetrates the cracks
/ and crevices much more thoroughly
than does the whitewash, we have
| found a mixture of one part crude
:. carbolic acid and fifteen parts of ker-
coal tar disinfectants also do effec-
tive work when applied at the rate of
one part of the disinfectant to forty
! or fifty parts of water. Kerosene
emulsion is often used and will be
| found satisfactory II well applied and
used frequently
All parts of the house should be
al 81 a
| taken to cover the bottoms of the
nests, and the cracks and crevices
about the roosts and In the walls. To
be successful every hiding place must
be reached. II possible all nests,
roosts, and other apparatus should
be removed and treated separately.
| Any good contact insecticide may
be used but should be applied thor
oughly and then repeated in the
course of few days, for in the
meantime more eggs may have hatch
ed out. making constant warfare
necessary.
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plants should have a chance to take
full possession of the ground, which
they cannot if crowded by nurse
! crop. While experiments show that
F., good catches of alfalfa occasionally
are secured when sown with nurse
crops, yet much better and more last
ing seedlings can be secured by SOW
ing the alfalfa alone,
Where alfalfa is sown without a
nurse crop it is customary to disk fall
plowed land early In the spring and
at intervals run a fine tooth harrow
over it to sprout the weed seeds. This
method of dragging should be contin
ued until June, when the alfalfa seed
can be sown to good advantage, II
the ground is extremely weedy 1t Is
preferable to continue the weed kill
ing process until the latter part OF
June or the first OF July. II alfalfa is
sown at that time the weeds do not
interfere and a good growth of al
falfa will be secured for winter pro-
lection, Often where alfalfa is sown
during June. II the weather is ia
vorable one good cutting of hay is
secured the first season. This, how
ever should be taken from the field
not later than the first of September
as 1t will be necessary to have suffi-
cient growth after that period to pro-
vide winter protection.