The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1914-05-14


ture to run IN: keep the fieas, mites,
lice and blue-bugs away from her and
she will do the rest. Later. you can
increase the feed; by close watch,
you can safely Judge what is nee
essary.
II you have an Incubator, first learn
just exactly how TO hatch and how
20 feed for three or four weeks. You
might be an expert an Matching and
AZ the same time feed so as to be
an expert In producing white diar'
rhea or killing Easily digested food,
such as boiled rice, stale bread moist
ened with milk. etc, but do not allow
children to do the feeding except I'M
der your direction. as they are liable
20 overhead They should be taught
how TO feed them. as white diarrhea
is much easier to prevent than TO
cure. suggest the prevention, as
the little chick stomach is not ready
for drugs although some few eases
have been cured. Should you desire
a treatment, II will be given free OF
charge. but II you carefully follow
the above. no further treatment is nee
essary.
Blue Bugs or Ticks ARGUS Minatus)
Rebuild the roost as follows Take
two pieces. lx4, any length desired.
Take ordinary fence stays round on
the corners and nail crosswise like
making LADDER rs or 20 inches
apart. seeing that lumber is free OF
knot-holes and cracks. Swing this
ladderlike roost with baling wire.
and with other wire gable II 10 make
Il steady. Set 2xi post AZ each
end. coming up TO within 6 inches OF
the roost. tack piece OF single
near the top to make an ideal place
for the ticks to hide as they VIII
climb the post to get TO the chickens.
and finding they cant make u, the
next morning they will be found IN
der the single to be killed with a
sprayer and disinfectant Burn al
trash and some pleasant morning dip
the fowls IN solution made Of J
gallon crude carbolic acid 10 so gal-
Ions water first the old ones. then
dilute with more water for the Young
ones Prepare a wash pot near tho
door. nm with water and while boil
ing (have on buckskin gloves dip up
a bucketful with a dippcr. and apply
It with dipper to walls and ceiling.
A drop OF this boiling liquid will kill
them as quick or quicker than any
thing else. II may require several
efforts 10 get all OF them as some
may hatch after II is applied u the
wall Is badly infested. nail PA 10
the wall, let II Joint and go to within
six inches 70 the roost. and near the
top tack shlnele 10 make another
trap or set Of traps, where you will I
know where TO apply the hot wrfer.
Curve wire over the short 2Ni TO
prevent chickens from roostine on
IT, u blue-huRs are present Won will
fnd them under the shingles Guard
closely the nests Of setting hens. and
see that hens are free from pest be
ore going 10 set Many nest boxes
IAN be protected by using the cresol
iisinfectins soap or me e A. Wood
ireseryative tcarbollnenml Two or
hree treatments around the next box
vim prevent tn ticks from crawling
n Destroy the English sparrow. the
.reatest agency for spreading the
.0ultry pests eve known and these
ticks are hard to destroy The ON
ial record gives one case Of 2 wears
Without any food another case. re-
crded AZ Dallas. that Il took . days.
ne inch under water 20 drown them.
now have such ticks, put In a
ottle oct %. 1913. which are still
live and seem jovial