ACCESSORIES TO THE POULTRY-HOUSE. 



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suspicious animals, and any little movement of 

 the apparatus would frighten them away. As 

 a precaution, however, it would be advisable to 

 cover the door and edges of the trough with tin. 



This feeding-hopper may be increased by en- 

 larging the diameter four inches, with another 

 feeding-trough on the opposite side. In this 

 case the end pieces of the perches may be cut 

 off at the fulcrum, and one pin answer for both, 

 and the lid loaded sufficiently to close after the 

 fowls leave the perch. This may be done in 

 part by covering the lid with tin, which would 

 also prevent rats or mice from gnawing holes 

 through the edges of the door. 



For feeding with soft food, such as boiled po- 

 tatoes, mush, barley-meal, shorts, middlings, 

 brewers' grains, etc., a feeding-trough like the 

 following one would be found very useful. 



The trough should be two feet and a half 



When the hen is confined in a coop with her 

 little family of chickens, they require consid- 



BARRKL FOUNTAIN. 



FEEDING-TROUGH. 



long, eight inches wide, four inches deep, with 

 lid of bars made to lift off at pleasure. It stands 

 on feet, projecting six inches on each side, not 

 only to prevent the trough being upset, but to 

 keep the bottom dry. This being intended par- 

 ticularly for moist food, the bars and upper part 

 should be removable to allow for a daily scouring. 



WATER FOUNTAINS. 



There should, if possible, be running water in 

 the yard, as fowls prefer clean, pure water ; and 

 in order to prevent their drinking by chance 

 what is bad or corrupted, wood, stone, or iron 

 troughs, or what is much better, fountains sim- 

 ilar to the two following. A small tube extends 

 from the cask to a shallow dish or pan, which 

 should be small, so that the fowls can not get 

 into and soil the water. A jug, demijohn, or 

 carboy may be substituted, and on some ac- 

 counts the glass vessel may be preferred, as it 

 can be more readily perceived when it requires 

 replenishing. 



erable water, and if a vessel is deep the 

 chickens are sure to get into it, and not only 

 soil and contaminate it, but often get then- 

 down wet, which injures, chills, and fre- 

 quently kills them. To remedy this, we 

 V\ adopted the following bottle fountain for the 

 mother and her brood, which we found to 

 answer admirably well. 

 A very good fountain may be made by taking 

 a thick piece of plank and scooping out one and 

 a quarter inches, forming a shallow trough, and 

 making a frame similar to the figure below, and 

 inserting the neck of a bottle, the nozzle reach- 

 ing to within three-fourths of an inch of the bot- 

 tom of the trough. 



BOTTLE FOUNTAIN. 



