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Farm Poultry 



be constructed as follows (Fig. 48): An ordinary 

 shallow milk-pan is placed on a block or shallow 

 box, the top of which is four or five inches from 

 the floor. The water or milk to be drunk by the 

 fowls is placed in this pan. Over the pan is placed 

 a board cover supported on pieces of lath about 

 eight inches long nailed to the cover so that they 

 are about two inches apart, the lower ends resting 

 on the box which forms the support of the pan. 

 In order to drink from the pan, it is necessary for 



the fowls to insert 



their heads be- 

 tween these pieces 

 of lath. The cover 

 over the pan and 

 the strips of lath 

 at the sides pre- 

 vent the poultry 

 from fouling the 

 water in any manner except in the act of drinking. 

 When drinking-pans of this kind are used, it is very 

 easy to cleanse and scald them with hot water as 

 occasion demands. This arrangement can be carried 

 a little further by placing a pan or, what would be 

 still better, a long, narrow dish, something like a tin 

 bread-tray, on a low shelf a few inches from the floor 

 and hinging the cover to one side of the poultry house 

 so that it can be tipped up in front for the removal 

 of the dish or for filling it with water. (See Fig. 49.) 



Fia. 48. A shallow milk-pan used as a 

 water basin, and protected with a board 

 cover having supports of laths. 



