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leather hinges will do, if the hint as to stiff setting of 

 the inclosures is strictly followed. Two of these panels 

 may be two feet two inches wide and ten or twelve feet 

 long. The third may vary in length from the width of 

 a coop to any desired length, up to twelve feet. The 

 union of the three may form a yard running out from a 

 coop or house, or may be used as a triangular yard to 

 confine chicks at any desired point. The quality of 

 being movable or portable is of very great advantage in 

 housing or yarding helps. There is on sale paneled 

 wire fencing of this character which is very good indeed. 

 It can be made more cheaply by one who is handy, but 

 a sample of the sale kind is a good object lesson in 

 bracing, which is the key to usefulness in such supplies. 



A small, single panel, smoothly made on three-fourths 

 inch framing material to fit the style of coop selected, 

 may be the means of saving scores of chicks. These 

 are chiefly used to close the coops at night, and they 

 cut off all depredation by roaming vermin at night 

 or before the owner gets up in the morning. These 

 are best fitted to slide behind the slatted coop fronts. 

 The worker who does not take great pains to select a 

 first-class type of coop, and make them all to one scale, 

 so that the panels may fit all the coops, makes an initial 

 mistake that may cost him much. 



A makeshift grain feeder, useful especially to those 

 who have to be away all day, but good for any poultry 

 keeper with a few fowls, consists of a castaway, bottom- 

 less pail, to the bottom of which may be wired a pie- 

 plate turned bottom upward. A narrow space is left 

 between the pail and this loose bottom, so that the pail, 

 when moved, will scatter a few grains of feed. The 



