TAR IN A POULTRY HOUSE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2422, 11 October 1886, Page 2

TAR IN A POULTRY HOUSE.

Poultry-breeders soem to have failed to discover the value of tar. Some people tar their poultry-yard fences instead of white-washing thorn, though we do not like to see it done, for it gives the surroundings such a gloomy, forbidding look. It undoubtedly contributes largejy to tl|e durability of the wood, promoting it from the'ravages) of storiji and tinye, It is 111 t|ie poultry house, hoiyover, that tho valiie of tar is the greatest, for it conduces greatly toward hoalthflllnoai, When the scourgo of the poultryman' cholera, makes its appearance, wp 'would adviso, first, a thorough eloaning of the a,' honße; next, a generous application of tar on all the joints, cracks, and orevice? \ . of tho inaide of the building, and then 'j ; plenty of fr<ish. white-wash properly applied, The tar absorbs or drives away the taints of disease, and makes the premises wholesomo.'' The smell is not very offensive; in fact many people like it, and it is directly opposite to unhealthy. A friend of ours waa once troubled with ut > chicken cholera ; and by adopting tho above in connection with removing affeeted fowls, he «oon put a. stop to its wages,—Poultry World.