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into the stationary box, preparatory to tilting. Later, 

 no bell is needed, for the very slightest movement of the 

 feed dropping appliances, unless absolutely noiseless, 

 will serve the purpose of the bell. Eeferring to the 

 hand bell shown in Figs. 71 and 76, a trip gong bell, 



FIG. 71. DETAILS OF TILT BOX. 



Fig. 126, is preferable, and you may use one for every 

 fifty or seventy-five feet of your brooder house. Or sus- 

 pend an ordinary sleigh bell by a cord over every brooder 

 box. People ask how long it takes to teach chicks to 

 understand the bell, and are surprised that only a few 

 days are needed for this. Fowls, old and young, rely 



