280 PROGRESSIVE POULTRY CULTURE 



water by gravitation from an elevated source of supply 

 to each pen or flock of fowls. 



On some plants the carrying of feed in pails has been 

 abandoned and a car running by a trolley conveys the 

 supply of food from pen to pen of fowls. The mixing 

 and feeding of wet mashes daily has given place, on 

 more than a few farms, to the plan of feeding dry feed 

 stuffs in hoppers which are filled once or twice a week. 



Instead of opening and closing hen house doors 

 hinged to open only one way the attendant pushes his 

 way through doors hung on double hinges that close 

 automatically. 



The labor of attending the fowls is further reduced 

 by keeping them in open-front houses. The scattering 

 of fine grains in the straw litter is done from the out- 

 side of the house through the meshes of the wire netting 

 covering the fronts of the pens. Hoppers placed in 

 the front of the houses are supplied with feed stuffs, 

 oyster shells, grit and granulated charcoal from the 

 outside of the buildings. Next boxes placed at the 

 front or rear of the house open to the outside for the 

 removal of the eggs. Curtains for the front of the pens 

 and for the roosting compartments are operated by 

 cords running through pulleys to the outside of the 

 house. 



By building open-front houses twenty feet instead 

 of ten feet wide it has been found practicable to place 

 the yards at the rear of the buildings and leave the 

 fronts free of fences so that in cleaning out the pens, 

 renewing the litter and filling the hoppers convenient 

 use may be made of wagons and horses. 



By the colony plan of keeping fowls and growing 

 chickens, yards are dispensed with, and the labor of 

 feeding, collecting eggs, etc., is lightened by using 

 horse power. 



Sufficient study and thought applied to the problems 

 of poultry management will always result in the saving 

 of labor and the economizing of other expenses. 



