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crate empty and folded, also the top, or cover, with its 

 trap-door. The entire frame-work is of any tough wood 

 ash is best one and a half to two inches square, ac- 

 cording to size of crate. The bottom is half-inch pine. 

 The wire used is common fence wire. The sides (Fig. 

 28) are hinged to the bottom, or floor, and when folded 

 lie flat on the bottom. On the top of the side, two pins, 

 a, , iron or wood, fit into holes in frame of the cover. 

 The sides are hinged to pieces which are screwed to the 

 bottom, and when folded lie up on the sides. Through 



Fig. 29. 



the top of the sides are two three-sixteenth-inch holes, 

 c, c, into which bolts of the same size are passed, and, 

 entering holes s, s, in the cover, hold it down. When 

 the crate is folded these bolts are withdrawn from the 

 holes c, c, and passed through the holes e, e, in the 

 bottom piece of the same side, and then through holes 

 in cover, and hold the whole crate solid and flat for ship- 

 ping. Thumb-nuts should be put on these bolts, requir- 

 ing no wrench. 



The crate can be made of any size desired. A crate 

 holding three to five dozen chickens is usually large 

 enough. In shipping long distances care should be taken 



