Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — POULTRY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY

HOW TO FUMIGATE HEN HOUSE

Building Bhould Be Closed Tightly and Ail Fowls Excluded—Be Careful of Poison Used.

Fumigation is a means of reaching germs and insect life in the air of the room and in the cracks and crannies of the wood work, says the Cultivator. The house or room should be tightly closed and all fowls excluded during fumigation. A simple method is to burn the sulphur candles now sold at stores dealing in poultry supplies. The fumes of, brimstone may also be produced J|y burning in a metallic basin (buc&l as iron kettle) a number of rags deviously soaked in melted sulphur. Sulphur may be mixed with a little alcohol or kerosene oil and bufned, or it may be sprinkled upon live coals placed in a chafing dish. The house or room should be kept closed for several hours and then opened as thoroughly as possible to allow the wind to drive out any remaining trace of poisonous gas. In fumigating by burning substances be careful not to set fire to the building. Remember also that in most cases the substances which are used are poisonous to human life and to /owls. Carelessness in their use or in leaving them about where chick or child can get at them may have dire results.