. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. oultry are kero-sene oil and bisulphide of carbon—the oil as a wash for nest boxes,perches and walls of the house or coop, the bisulphide as a vapor-bath for the fowls and for fumigating the whole house. These, witha good dry dust-bath containing some lime, sulphur and tobacco-dust, will keep fowls free from insects. Treatment of fowls diseased by intestinal parasites, as a rule, willnot pay, but an occasional vermicide fed to apparently healthy fowlswill greatly help to keep a flock free from such diseases. The bestand che
. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. oultry are kero-sene oil and bisulphide of carbon—the oil as a wash for nest boxes,perches and walls of the house or coop, the bisulphide as a vapor-bath for the fowls and for fumigating the whole house. These, witha good dry dust-bath containing some lime, sulphur and tobacco-dust, will keep fowls free from insects. Treatment of fowls diseased by intestinal parasites, as a rule, willnot pay, but an occasional vermicide fed to apparently healthy fowlswill greatly help to keep a flock free from such diseases. The bestand cheapest vermicides for internal use on fowls are iron sulphate(copperas) and hyposulphite of soda. The dose of each for adultfowls is about a teaspoonful of saturated solution put into the drink-ing water of a dozen fowls once a week. For same, J teaspoonful oftincture of nux vomica in drinking water once a week is a finegeneral tonic. The Home Vegetable Garden and its Pests ISSUED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION RALEIGH, N. C. Bulletin No. 132. October 20, 1896. 457 Publications will be sent to any address in North Carolina upon application. N. G. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, INCLUDING THE FERTILIZER CONTROL STATION AND THE STATE WEATHER SERVICE, UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE N. C. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. W. F, Green, Chairman, Franklin ton. W. S. Raleigh. | Greensboro, D. A. Tompkins Charlotte. J. R. McLelland Mooresville. H. E. Fries Salem. Cyrus Thompson Richlands. N. B. Broughton Raleigh. H. E. King Peanut. R. W. Wharton Washington J. B. Coffield Everetts. W. R. Capehart Avoca. E. A. Aiken Jeptha. J. L. Nelson .__ Lenoir. Frank Wood Edenton. STAFF OF THE EXPERIMENT STATION. H. B. Battle, Ph. D Director and State Chemist. F. E. Emery, M. S ..Agriculturist. Gerald McCarthy, B. So Botanist and Entomologist. W. F. Massey, C. E Horticulturist. C. F. von Herrmann (U. S. Weather Bureau) .Met
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