River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-10-20
County Agent Notes
H. G.. Seyforth

Department at Madison il By the use
of Sodium Fluorida. This chemical
is white powder that can be obtain
ed through local stores, drug stores,
or mail order houses if ordered in
advance. Two methods have been
recommended; either the pinch" or
dipping. The dipping is undoubtedly
the most satisfactory. With any
treatment one must be careful to
treat every hen in the flock on the
same day. Mix the solution IN either
a large wash tub or barrel. Use
one ounce of Sodium Fluoride to each
gallon of water A pound is about
enough to treat three hundred hens.
This gives an approximate idea OF
the amount required for the flock one
owns. Hold the hen by the legs and
wings to prevent struggling Up
her into the solution tail first to force
the water under the feathers. Repeat
three of four times to Thoroughly
wet the feathers. In heavily feathered
hens it may be necessary to work the
solution into the base of the featn-
ers by using the hands. Squeeze out
excess water into the tub and turn
the fowl loose to dry. In severe cases
it may be advisable to repeat IN about
three weeks. One should be careful
in using dipping treatment on cold
DAYS as the hen is liable to take
pneumonia. If dipped on Geld windy
day. hens should be allowed to re-
main in the building until thoroughly
dry.
Mites
Our experience in using wood pre-
servatives for mites has been limited
almost entirely to the use OF Carbol-
ineum. This liquid is manufactured
by the Carbolineum Wood Preserving
Company of Milwaukee. 1t has about
the same consistency as paint and is
applied with paint brush. Thorough
w saturate the roosts, nests, and
points on the wall near these places.
An excess is an advantage for when
the pieces are placed in the sun to
dry the solution soaks into the wood
to kill the mites and prevent the
eggs which have been deposited in
every small crack or crevice from
Matching. Some people have been
recommending the use of oil taken
from the crank case of the automo-
bile as a mite destroyer. They have
been using this as paint or have
been mixing it with kerosene and
using the solution as spray. AS an
added precaution, one should white
wash the poultry house in the fall OF
the year to assist in controlling poul-
try parasites, to disinfect the house
and to tighten the interior during the
winter months.
A good treatment for scaiy legs on
poultry is to dip the legs OF the fowi
in kerosene and then grease them
with some oil or grease.
A large number of the people VINO
attended the poultry culling demon
strations have ordered celluloid poul-
try leg bands. / have found that IN
ordering in lots of two thousand or
more / can get them for 70 cents per
hundred. If you wish to get any OF
these bands you should get your or
der in at once, telling me the colors
you wish, and the breed OF chickens
YOU have, so that / can get the cor
rect size.
The meeting at the Weston 10O-acre
orchard near Hatchville last Tuesday
was very successful. Forty men and
women from Pierce, ST. Croix and
Dunn counties, interested in fruit
growing were present. The fire blight
situation was discussed very thor
oughly by DR.. Fracker and DR..
Vaughan of the State Department OF
Agriculture. A man from this de-
partment is spending two weeks IN
the territory tributary to this orchari !,
locating fire blight and other dise1s-
es of apple trees, and instructing the
owners how to get rid of same. Ii
there is anyone wishing to find oft
more about fireblight and how TO
rrune for same, shall be glad to help
them.
A draining expert from the Agric-
ultural Engineering Department at
Madison will be with me on Tuesday
and Wednesday, Oct. Is and 26 to help
me on the drainage proposition in the
county. If there are any farmers IN
the county who have drainage prob
lem on their farm and would like to
have further information in regard to
it, they should get in touch with me
before these days SO that we can VS.
it them.
On Thursday and Friday, Oct. II
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