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hen, and you can save enough broken eggs and mashed chicks in one 

 year to pay for building these nests. The vessels for food and water 

 may be placed inside of the projection in front of the coop, or you 

 can make a tin trough in three parts and place them in front of the 

 coop where the grit is shown in this illustration. 



HOUSE FOR SETTING HENS. 



Any outbuilding or shed can be fitted up for this purpose. Place a 

 row of nests around a wall, and provide vessels for feed and water in 

 the center of the room. Also arrange a dust bath in front of a window 



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Arrangement of a shed or house for setting hens. 



where they can get the sunlight. When a hen becomes broody, trans- 

 fer her to this building. If you hatch with hens, this is the most satis- 

 factory plan. The laying hens are not interfering with the setters, 

 breaking the eggs, etc. The setters cannot leave the nest and building 

 and therefore do not stay away until the eggs become chilled, as is 

 frequently the case. 



METHODS OF KEEPING EGGS FOR HATCHING AS AFFECTING 



VITALITY. 



(Prof. J. E. Rice, Cornell University.) 



There are many ways of losing constitutional vigor, and one or 

 two of these ways are so simple and so commonly misunderstood that 

 we ought not to lose the opportunity of just saying a word or two on 

 how constitutional vigor may be lost in eggs by the mere method of 

 keeping them for hatching. We have conducted rather extensive ex- 

 periments in the matter of testing the loss in constitutional vigor of 

 eggs due to the method of keeping. The first one that I will allude 

 to is in regard to the time to keep eggs for hatching. Fifty eggs 

 were placed in a certain room at the average temperature of sixty-five 

 degrees, and each week thereafter another bunch of fifty eggs were 

 placed in this room and given similar treatment until we had eggs 

 that were kept thirty-five days, twenty-eight days, twenty-one days, 

 fourteen days and seven days and one day, and then these eggs were 

 all placed in the same incubator, and the following results were noted 

 in regard to their fertility and hatching qualities. The eggs had been 

 taken from the same or similar pens of hens, so that all conditions 

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