COOPS FOR CHICKENS. 



pants, the openings at the top being erroneously deemed 

 sufficient. 



All the chickens destined for the itinerant stations 

 must, as mentioned on Page 19, be fed indirectly. For 

 two days only are they and the hens fed upon the floor 

 of the coop. Then for a week they are fed in the box 

 given in Fig. 36. It has no bottom, and the top, not 

 shown in the figure, is temporary, and composed of loose 

 boards. Place it so that its door shall meet the small 

 door in the coop, having first dropped in the feed at the 

 corner, and covered the box with the boards in such a 

 manner as to admit a little light. After a week the 



chickens, being strong 

 enough to venture some 

 distance, are fed from a 

 box of galvanized iron 

 6x16 in., and 3-4 in. deep, 

 Fig. 37. A wire grating, 

 F, with meshes one inch 

 square, protects the feed 

 from the feet of the 



chickens, but admits their bills. The grating is covered 

 at pleasure by a lid, G, these being hinged to opposite 

 sides of the box. When such boxes are placed in a row, 

 Fip. 38, each filled with feed, one for each coop, with the 

 lids down, a snap-hook is attached to a ring which is fas- 

 tened to each lid, and a wire connects with all the hooks, 

 as in Fig. 38. One pull opens all the lids, and the 

 chickens are at dinner. 



These feed boxes are carried to the granary to be filled, 

 using a wheelbarrow, in which many may be packed at 

 a time. The coops are twenty feet apart, in a single 

 row, and the wheelbarrow is rolled along the line, and 

 the boxes, with lids closed, are put on the side of the 

 coops near the small doors, which are shut, in order 

 that the hens may not worry when the chickens are feed- 



