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netting wliicli is commonly referred to as "poultry netting" is hexagonal 

 and in the cloth square. 



Too much emphasis cannot be placed on the necessity of having the 

 wire covering the pens stretched loosely. This greatly minimizes the 

 chances of the birds injuring themselves in the very probable event that 

 they will fly against it if seriously alarmed. Such a mishap usually results 

 in scalped heads and badly injured wings. CUpping one wing also tends 

 to reduce this danger. 



Occasionally breeders use fish net as a substitute for wire netting, 

 particularly for pen coverings, as it lessens the chances of injury if the 

 birds fly against it when alarmed. It is much more expensive than wire 

 and does not wear as long, but is more easily handled. W. A. Augur, 

 33 Fulton Street, New York City, furnished the following quotations on 

 October 5, subject to change at any time: 



Two-inch square mesh, 20-thread, soft laid twine, 1}^ cents a square 

 foot. 



One and one-quarter-inch mesh, 24-thread, medium laid twine, 2}^ 

 cents a square foot. 



Tarring is advisable, and this adds approximately 5 per cent, to the 

 cost. 



In order to afford a comparison between the cost of wire and fish net, 

 it may be mentioned that a 150-foot bale of the former, 6 feet wide and 

 2-inch mesh, would cost at this time $5.62}/^, while a similar quantity 

 of fish net of the same mesh would necessitate an outlay of $13.50. 



STATIONARY TYPE.— The second type of pen for confining adult 

 birds is that employed on the New Jersey State Game Farm, see Figure 3. 

 It is 300 X 150 feet and 7 feet high. Two pens, each of this size, 

 immediately adjoining, are built, one covered and one open at the top. 

 The birds are allowed to range in the open top pen in the daytime but are 

 confined in the closed top enclosure at night for greater security. A 

 maximum of four hundred and twenty breeders is placed in these twin 

 pens. The sides are composed of solid boards for a distance of 3 feet from 

 the ground, the remaining space being covered with wire poultry netting. 

 The boards, 4 feet long, 12 inches wide and % inch thick, are sunk one foot 

 in the ground to prevent vermin from getting under the fence. They are 

 nailed vertically top and bottom to pieces of 2 x 3. (In country that is 

 badly infested with vermin, 3^-inch wire netting should replace the boards. 

 It is run one foot vertically beneath the surface and then bent outward at 

 right angles and run six inches horizontally.) Above the boards, which 

 minimize the alarming of the birds by dogs and passersby, one-inch wire 

 poultry netting is emj)loyed. Two-inch mesh wire, stretched loosely to 



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