. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . and rearing of chickens is done in incubators andbrooders. The growing chickens are never allowed to come intoany contact whatever with old hens. Therefore, when thepullets are ready to go into the laying houses in the fall they arefree from lice. Sometime in the late summer, usually in Au-gust or early in September, the laying houses are given a thor-ough cleaning. They are first scraped, scoured and washedout with water thrown on the walls and floor with as much pres-sure as possible from a hose. They are then given two thoroughs
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . and rearing of chickens is done in incubators andbrooders. The growing chickens are never allowed to come intoany contact whatever with old hens. Therefore, when thepullets are ready to go into the laying houses in the fall they arefree from lice. Sometime in the late summer, usually in Au-gust or early in September, the laying houses are given a thor-ough cleaning. They are first scraped, scoured and washedout with water thrown on the walls and floor with as much pres-sure as possible from a hose. They are then given two thoroughsprayings, with an interval of several days intervening, with asolution of cresol such as is described on page 7. Then theroosting boards, nests, floors and walls to a height of about 5feet are thoroughly sprayed with the lice paint (kerosene oiland crude carbolic acid). Finally, any yearling, or older birds,whether male or female, which are to be kept over for nextyears work are given two or three successive dustings, at in- 78 METHODS of poultry MAINE AGRICUIvTURAL EXPE^RIMENT STATION. 79 tervals of several days to a week behveen each application, withthe lice powder described below, before they are put into thecleaned houses. As a result of these methods the Stations poultry plant isat all times of the year practically free from lice. In keeping a poultry plant reasonably free from lice thereare tM^o points of attack: One, the birds themselves; the other,the houses, nest boxes, roosting boards, etc. For the birdsthemselves experience has shown that the best way to get rid ofthe lice is by the use of a dusting powder to be worked intothe feathers. In using any kind of lice powder on poultry itshould always be remembered that a single application of pow-der is not sufficient. When there are lice present on a birdthere are always unhatched eggs of lice (nits) present proper procedure is to follow up a first application of pow-der with a second at an interval
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