The Donaldsonville Chief

KEROSENE KILLS POULTRY.

It Destroyed the Lice, It Is True, But Seventy Nice Young Turkeys Went with Them.

Among other things that attracted our attention in going about last season was the quick and extended destruction that kerosene oil will bring to a lot of young chickens or turkeys where it is used as an ointment to destroy lice, fleas or bugs. In one instance a raiser who had a fine lot of young turkeys discovered that some lice were bothering them a little, and at once proceeded to rub them with lard in which some kerosene oil had been mixed.

Always prior to this time this breeder had been very successful with the use of lard alone, but the addition of kerosene having been recommended, it was tried, and over 70 young turkeys were killed by the experiment. Hundreds of young chicks have been killed in the same way, and yet people will tell you to use it, and people will use it in spite of all that you can tell them. The best and most innocent remedy to be used in this way is to dip your finger, or a small stiff brush, into sweet oil and thoroughly anoint the parts where the insect vermin are, and this will kill them all and in no way injure the young chick or poultry.

We presume that every paper in the country interested in poultry in any way has recorded in its columns the danger of using kerosene for this purpose, and yet, as stated above, people will continue to use it.

Nothing can be more destructive than are the insect vermin when once they get a foothold among your young chicks or turkeys. One very successful turkey raiser carefully examines every morning every young turkey up to six weeks old, prior to allowing them their freedom. When lice are discovered upon the young turkeys they are either destroyed by the thumb nail or touched with sweet oil, which quickly ends their existence.

This breeder succeeded in raising 70 out of some 76 or 77 that were hatched.-The Feather.