PAPER LINING FOR POULTRY HOUSE.

Patea Mail, 28 February 1882, Page 3

PAPER LINING FOR POULTRY HOUSE.

When the breeder can afford it, it is a good plan to have the poultry house lathed' and plastered smoothly on the inside, and then frequent applications of whitewash will servo generally to keep vermin from coming to stay, for 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 should 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 we know of at present, while it has the advantage of being cheap and readily applied by any one. 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. We would here remaik that old £oul nests, and nesting boxes, are regular hot-beds of lice and vermin, and no careful breeder will permit such evidence of slothfulness and neglect to find room about his premises, but will condemn them to the flames.—“ Poultry Monthly, U.S.A.”