POULTRY-HOUSE CONVENIENCES. 43 



FOLDING SHIPPING-CRATE. 



On farms, where chickens have full run of the yards, 

 they pick up a great deal of food which would otherwise 

 be wasted, and the cost of raising a limited number is com- 

 paratively small; but where they must be fed with grain, 

 the profits are reduced to a fraction, and a very small 

 fraction if they are sold to the storekeeper for "trade." 

 One of the chief reasons why more farmers do not ship 

 their own poultry is the lack of suitable shipping-crates. 

 Express companies charge for weighty and unless the 



Fig. 28. 



crates are light and well made, they object to returning 

 them free. Poultry sells better in crates that are light, 

 handsome, and airy. 



An excellent folding-crate invented and used by Fred 

 Grundy is thus described : The crate is exactly square. 

 Figure 28 shows two sides and the bottom, or floor, as 

 they are made and put together. Figure 29 shows the 



