Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — Verminous Fowls. [ARTICLE]

Verminous Fowls.

This pest is much wider ' spread than any one would at first believe. It indirectly is the cause of more deafhs, more poor, weak, undergrown fowls than any other o-.e cause. If you don't believe this, go out to your poultry yard, pick up the first moping or poor fowl you may see and carefully examine it, especially on top of the head. We copy the fbllowing from, The Poultry Yard: “The best as well as easiest remedy for getting rid of verminous fowls, and keepin. them clear afterward, is first to clean and whitewash the roosts, adding a liberal tupply of salt to the wash. Then have the entrance to and trom these roosts small enough so that a sponge saturated with kerosene oil hung over the entrance would come in contact with the back of the fowl every, lime if goes in or out. Supply the sponge with oil once a week.”