NEW AND IMPROVED POULTRY APPLIANCES. 



Modern poultry husbandry demands improvements in three principal 

 directions. The first has to do with economy of labor; the second is 

 concerned with better sanitary conditions ; the third calls for fowls with 

 greater vigor and higher 

 laying capacity. Large 

 expense for labor, heavy 

 loss from disease, and 

 low average egg-laying 

 capacity per fowl, are 

 three existing handicaps 

 to the most profitable 

 poultry farming. 



This bulletin describes 

 a few ways and means 

 for saving labor, prevent- 

 ing disease and increas- 

 ing prolificacy. The thir- 

 teen appliances here 

 mentioned originated at 

 this station and are now 

 in practical operation. 

 They are unpatented and 

 are given to the public 

 by the New York State 

 College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University. So 

 far as we know, they are 

 not infringements on ex- 

 isting patents. Manufac- 

 turers and others are at liberty to use these devices, but the college will not 

 be responsible for litigation that may arise from alleged infringement. 

 The appliances that are here described are as follows : 



1. A New Trap-Nest, page 208. 



2. A Non- Wasting Rat-Proof Feed-Hopper, page 214. " . 



3. A Force-Feed Grit-Hopper, page 217. 



4. A Feed Supply-Can, page 218. 



5. An Egg Distributing-Table, page 219. 



6. An Egg Carrying-Box, page 220. 



7. A System for Keeping Laying Records, page 221. 



8. A Combination Crate for Eggs and Dressed Poultry, page 221. 



9. A Sanitary Water-Pan, page 225. 



10. A Device for Carrying Kerosene Oil to Incubator Cellar, page 225. 



11. A Catching-Hook, page 226. 



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Fig. 86. — Feeding with the hand scoop; the New York 

 trap- nest on the wall; the feed hopper underneath. 

 The feed supply can to the right. Sanitary water 

 pan and grit hopper in fore-ground. 



