KEEPING FOWL-HOUSES CLEAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 335, 19 January 1889, Page 4

KEEPING FOWL-HOUSES CLEAN.

A correspondunt of tho American Poultry Yaid says that if a fowl house has a dry, even floor, of any sorb whatever, ib may bo kept in a veiy healthy condition with only two cleanings per week in summer when the fowls, arc out in the yards during the greater part ot the day, and Math "three cleanings during the -'same time in winter. We lately had the care of several coops, each sixteen feet square, allhavingconcreted floors. In each of th^se houses not less than sevonty-fivehen.sroosted every night,and ycfc very little trouble was experienced in kcepin cr them in nice condition. We kept a coupla of large barrels ot fine, dry road dust close at hand, and always scattered a few shovelfuls on the perches and floor after each cleaning. They never become soiled with the droppings, and dust and droppings both wore swept up with a splint broom and carried into a building provided for the purpose. Garbolic acid and other disinfectants weie sprinkled over the perches, floor and nest boxes once a week and the perches thoroughly oiled with kerosene about every ten or twelve days. That puts an instant, end to both red and white mites, than, which nothing could annoy the fowls more when on their perches and nests. It i& an easy matter to keep coops clean if one gets about ib in the light way. Have your barrels or bins of road dust in one corner of each house ; your splinfc broom, spade and box for containing the d.roppings hanging conveniently near ; and then have a little energy and regularity yourself, aud the thing is done. As regularly as nine o'clock came on Wednesdays and Saturdays it found all our houses clean as a parlour floor.