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may be from one to three feet long. It is within easy 

 reach of the chickens and so narrow that they cannot 

 stand upon the edges. Food placed in such feeding 

 troughs may be kept clean until wholly consumed. 

 Small feeding troughs have been supplanted to a 



FIG. 79. A movable coop, showing a good device. 



large extent by dry-feed hoppers for such food as 

 will work well in hoppers. It is often desirable, 

 however, to feed moistened food that can be best 

 placed before the chickens in little troughs. 



GRIT 



Grit should be placed before chickens not later 

 than the second day after they commence to eat. 

 Coarse sand will answer the purpose very well for 

 young chickens. Finely crushed stone or pulver- 

 ized cinders will suffice if coarse sand or prepared 



