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The farm animals were always needing care. Lice were common in winter, when there were long winter coats of hair on the horses and cattle. To keep the lice under control we would wrap a post in the corral with rags soaked in kerosene or motor oil. The cattle, horses and hogs took care of them selves by rubbing against the oily rags. Occasionally we would mix kerosene and oil and rub it on the animal. Lice and mites on chickens were treated by painting roosts and nests with a creosote mixture and put wood ashes in the dusting pans.
Mice in grain bins was always a problem. We had cats around that helped control the mice. One of our neighbor kept a bull snake during the summer months. Cats that had kittens in winter could keep them alive. In summer I suspected the bull snake was getting them.
We kept a few cats around the barns, if we fed them a little milk when we milked the cows, they never seemed to need any other food, so we were seldom bothered with mice in our feed bins.
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Metzger Memories
