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is covered with wire netting, one must be careful to see that 

 it fits tight up to the box when being replaced after removal. 

 It may be twice the length of the box, or 2ft. 6in. 



Fig. 4 is another kind of box, which does away with the 

 wire run. It is generally made I5in. square and i8in. high. 

 The bottom is covered by rat-proof wire netting, and the 

 door is similarly provided. A turf, hollowed out in con- 

 venient form, is placed in for the nest, as it provides the 



FIG. 4.- HATCHING BOX. 



necessary moisture as well as being the best thing on which 

 to hatch out eggs. 



Various numbers of eggs are recommended as the best to 

 give to the sitting, some advising much too large, others 

 considerably too small a number. We consider fifteen 

 pheasants' eggs to be a fair and desirable sitting for a 

 crossbred hen of the type advocated, and if she prove at 

 all a good sitter and mother, it is more than likely all the 

 fertile eggs will be hatched and the young reared. The day 



