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to the end walls, nine of them near the closed end and 

 five in the end where the door is. If many chicks are 

 working near the stove we transfer one or two troughs 

 from each end to the side walls until they have learned 

 to follow them. In this as well as in every other respect 

 you will note that we go to extra trouble to get the little 

 fellows started. 



We find it easier to fill the troughs the first day or 

 two near the door and to carry them into place already 

 filled. We use five gallon oil cans for feed pails. The top 

 is cut out to within an inch of the edge. This one inch 

 is turned over, making the top stronger. Heavy wire is 

 used for a bale ; we fasten the bale toward one side rather 

 than in the center. This makes it convenient to carry 

 two pails in one hand which saves steps as two pails full 

 of bran can be carried as easily as one. 



The troughs are filled with a small-mouthed scoop or 

 a large sized flat stove shovel. Enough bran is put into 

 each trough to bring it within half an inch of the top of 

 the side pieces. If the trough is filled level full there 

 will be too much waste there will be some in any event, 

 especially for the first few days as some of the little fel- 

 lows will crawl into almost any sized opening. We 

 have found that a trough of the exact dimensions given 

 is least wasteful. 



The bran troughs are removed at about 11:30. We 

 fasten two brackets to each end wall, not quite four feet 

 apart and about two feet wide, and the troughs are set 

 on the brackets. The top piece of the trough being flat 

 and wide, the troughs will "stack" nicely. The water pots 

 are then refilled and the plats are put down, most of them 



