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separately, by hand, just as you would rock a cradle, 

 each having a separate axle made by nailing a stick, one 

 and one-half or two inches square, across the bottom of 

 the tilt box, at the under side, and letting it project a 

 couple of inches beyond the ends of the box, these ends 

 to be rounded, and each to rest in a notch of correspond- 

 ing size cut in the edge of a horizontal bearing piece of 



inch board. A good 

 shape for such a box is 

 seen in Fig. 143. 



Of course, you walk to 

 each tilt box in succes- 

 sion, and do without feed 

 cylinders by sprinkling a 

 pinch of millet or other 

 fine feed by hand twice 

 every time you tilt the 

 box, one pinch to call 

 them cut of the tilt box 

 to begin with. No signal 

 will be needed to call 

 them. Their quick eyes 

 will watch your every 

 motion. You can set a 



tilt box, then a brooder or stationary box, for they are 

 both the same thing; then a tilt box, then a brooder, 

 right alongside of an alley three feet wide, which is sunk 

 two feet in the ground for the attendant to walk in, or 

 you can set the brooder and the frame which supports 

 the tilt box on legs two feet long, as in Figs. 78, 79 and 

 80. The brooders should communicate with little yards 

 or long narrow runways, with small outdoor exercisers 

 attached, but for the first fifteen or twenty days of the 

 younglings' existence there need be no going out doors at 

 all, if you operate the tilt box often. The floor of the 

 stationary box or brooder should be two inches higher 



FIG. 120. CRANK MADE OF PIPING. 



