PAPER LINING FOR POULTRY HOUSES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2485, 24 March 1882, Page 3

PAPER LINING FOR POULTRY HOUSES.

When the breeder can afford it,it is a good plan to hare the poultry house lathed aud plastered smoothly on the inside, and then frequent applications of whitewash will serve generally to keep vermin from coming to stay, f' T the smooth surface of the walls offers no crevices for their lodgment. Such a house, too, is warm and comfortable in winter and cool in summer. When the expense deters breeders from adopting the above plan, it is a good and cheap (substitute to line the entire inside of the house with tarred paper, which is manufactured especially for building purposes, and can be had and put on cheaply. This sheu'd be treated to frequent coatings of tar, which is very distasteful to vermin and very healthful for the fowls. As far as preventing the appearance of lice and mites, this tarred paper or “felting” is ahead of anything else wa know of at present, while it has the advantage of being cheap and readily applied by any oue. It gives a smooth finish to the interior of the houses, though many object to the dark color as well as to the smell of the tar. Be that as it may, its great usefulness should overcome such trifling objections to those of a practical turn of mind. Wn would here r.mark that old foul nests, and norling boxes, are regulir hotbeds of lice a-.d T'rn.i t, ard no careful breeder will permi’ s eh evidence of (dothfidnees and neglect to find room about hi* premises, bat will conde t n 'hem to the flames.