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points of this kind is to try out a special appliance on a small 

 scale and in comparison with the best arrangement that he can 

 make without it. 



Dusting boxes. Dust baths are required when poultry are con- 

 fined on floors of wood or cement. They may be built into one 

 corner, in which case all that is necessary to make the dusting place 



FIG. 262. Fully equipped feed, store, and conditioning house. (Photograph 

 from Gardner and Dunning) 



is two boards for the two outer sides, the walls forming the other 

 sides and the floor the bottom. This is probably the best arrange- 

 ment in small pens. In large pens it may be more satisfactory to 

 use movable boxes (about thirty inches square and twelve inches 

 high) with bottoms, and place two or more in each pen. 



Common tools. In the work of caring for poultry houses and 

 yards the ordinary garden and stable tools (rakes, hoes, shovels, 

 spades, forks, brooms, wheelbarrows, pails, scoops, etc.) all have 



