1 June, 1898. ] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 459 
POULTRY-HOUSES RULED OUT. 
Tux Williamette Farmer contains a lengthy epistle from the pen of Mr. 
George D. Goodhue, in the course of which he says :—“ Perhaps friends will 
think that the poultry editor has stepped down from his high ladder when he 
asserts that a chicken-house is an abominable thing in a poultry yard, and a 
regular nuisance for at least nine months in the year. We confidently assert 
that there have been more fowls killed by lice in henhouses than there have 
been by coons and foxes in the whole Williamette Valley. Imagine, reader, 
our sixteen years fighting lice out of henhouses, and then haying to come down 
to pure air of heaven, and a good fir-tree for our fowls to roost in. Imagine, 
further, our mechanical and cosy breeding-houses all torn down and used for 
other purposes, while a simple roost in the centre of each yard, about 2 feet 
high, and two boards tacked together against the fence and on the ground, 
forming a box for laying purposes, end our ornamental display of poultry 
fixtures. We prefer to keep a good collie dog and discard our henhouses, 
ornamented with lice and unhealthy chickens. We find our fowls all healthy, 
and they lay 50 per cent. better. Our chicks are raised with but little loss, 
and we have the satisfaction of knowing that our time is not spent in vain. 
We have not been killing 10,000,000,000 tice to-day, and get up and find 
10,000,000,000 more at their funeral.” —Adelaide Observer. 
