POULTRY ON A TOWN. LOT 97 
Often the problem is not lack of land as much 
as lack of time. Many commuters would like to 
keep a few hens if they did not find it necessary 
to leave home early in the morning, perhaps with 
no assurance of getting home again until after dark. 
If the wife or some other member of the family 
may be interested in the hen-keeping project, the 
birds will not suffer for lack of feed and water ; but 
it frequently happens that nobody in the family 
wants to bother with them—and the work is a 
bother unless one has a genuine liking for well-bred 
poultry. 
There is a way of meeting this difficulty and keep- 
ing even a good-sized flock with only ten or fifteen 
minutes attention each day and with an extra hour 
on Saturday or Sunday, when a general cleaning 
may be indulged in. By means of a patent feeder 
and exerciser which costs $2.50 and a patent water 
fountain costing one dollar, combined with the use 
of hoppers for dry mash, as already described, the 
commuting poultry keeper can entirely dispense with 
daily feeding and watering. 
The feeder holds from eight to thirty-two quarts 
of grain, a few kernels of which drop out every time 
a bait bar under the machine is moved. This bar 
