Charcoal and Lime.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2909, 28 May 1888, Page 2

Charcoal and Lime.

Thcso two articles play a very important part in the management fowls, whether bred in a.fanciers y&flp or on a farm. Charcoal should he liberally fed; for no ono thing is A conductive to health than this. should be broken in small lumps and put where the fowls can get at it, and they will eat it with great relish, We have seen it fed to pigs with the very best results and those which were treated to it were never troubled with disease or sickness while neighboring ones were. This helps to prove its value not only for swine but for fowls. Where the birds are kopt in confinement, it is a very good plan to keep a small trough in a sheltered place, full of small bits of fresh charcoal, and the fowls will soon learn to help themselves. The value of lime in the form of whitewash is well known, and those who use it liberally are the ones who keep their flocks healthy and cleanly. To render whitewash more effective in dislodging, driving away, or destroying lice and other parasitic nuisances, the addition of a little carbolic acid for scarcely anything elsellnsso dis< tasteful to the vermin. Air-slaked lime should be occasionally scattered over the floor of the chicken-house, to remove unpleasant and /wealthy odours, while a little of be scattered around the yards and runs. For material for egg-shells, oyster-sheli limo is the best for this purpose,