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iceable and may be hung to the walls with screw 
eyes. Often the nests are put under the dropping 
boards and entered from the rear, but such an ar- 
rangement makes it difficult to reach any eggs which 
may be dropped in the alley back of the nests as 
well as decreasing the floor space. 
Dark nests are not required, but there is less dan- 
ger of the hens acquiring the egg-eating habit if 
they are used. One amateur makes boxes three feet 
long with an opening at one end and a hinged cover. 
He finds that there are fewer broken eggs and less 
quarreling when several hens crowd into such a 
nest at the same time than when they are given 
individual nests. 
The covers should always have a sharp pitch so 
that the hens cannot roost on them. In many cases, 
egg or orange crates turned on their sides are prov- 
ing very satisfactory nests. Nest eggs are of value 
in teaching or rather coaxing the hens to lay in 
the nests instead of in the corner. 
It is a good plan to have a platform for the feed 
and water dishes, so that the hens cannot scratch 
litter into them. A galvanized water pail is as sat- 
isfactory as a patent fountain when this plan is fol- 
lowed. 
