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opened for the entrance of another layer. After each 

 hen has laid, the attendant removes her, and each hen 

 has a band with a number attached to her leg and the 

 eggs may be numbered to correspond. This process 

 is gone through in the attempt to pick out the best 

 layers to keep over for breeders and the experiment 

 station hopes to establish a strain of wonderful layers. 



FIG 66: TRAP NEST BOXES 



For those who wish to make their own boxes, 

 the following directions are supplied by Professor 

 Gowell of the Maine station: 



It is a box-like structure, without front end or 

 cover, twenty-eight inches long, thirteen inches wide 

 and thirteen inches dee- inside measurements. A 



