Cheaply-Made Fowl House
Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder if you and your Daisy Chain could help my husband out of his difficulty? The matter is that we have bought some chickens and are building a fowl house for them. My husband heard, some time back, of a good idea, cheap as well as very serviceable. It was a "wash" containing cement, lime, and alum, It appears you put the framework up and and then sew lots of sacks together, nail them on the framework and then wash over with this particular " wash." The whole is then white-washed to make it look nice. Perhaps some of the farm people could help. — "A True Daisy Chainer" (Otaki). Well, I put this S.O.S, before the Daisy Chain at the morning session, and several kindly "links" took pleasure in replying at once. I posted the recipe on to the "True Daisy Chainer,’ but as the information will be useful to hundreds of people, I am putting it in this page. I quote the letter from " The Two Bachelors,’ Hawera:.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 28, 5 January 1940, Page 44
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175Cheaply-Made Fowl House New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 28, 5 January 1940, Page 44
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