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on the north side only. The birds will be kept in the building 

 until the weather is suitable for opening the small doors in the 

 rear wall. The necessity for getting them out from'the open 

 front house, where they are really subject to most of the out of 

 door conditions during the day time, is not so great as when they 

 are confined in close houses, with walls and glass windows. The 

 use of the rear yards only, may not prove satisfactory. If how- 

 ever, as good yields of eggs and health of birds result, many 

 decided advantages will be obtained by dispensing with front 

 yards. The clear open front of the house allows teams to pass 

 close to the open door of the pens for cleaning out worn material, 

 and delivering new bedding, and also in allowing attendants to 

 enter and leave all pens from the outside walk, and reach the 

 feed room without passing through intervening pens. 



TRAP NESTS. 

 The nest which we use is original with us. It is very 

 simple, inexpensive, easy to attend and certain in its action. 

 It is a box-like structure without front end or cover, 28 inches 

 long, 13 inches wide and 16 inches deep, inside measure. A 

 division board with a circular opening 7^ inches in diameter is 

 placed across the box, 12 inches from the rear end and 15 inches 

 from the front end. The rear section is the nest proper. In- 

 stead of a close made door at the entrance, a light frame of i by 

 1^2 inch stuff is covered with wire netting of one inch mesh. 

 The door is 10 inches wide by 10 inches high, and does not fill 

 the entire entrance, a space of two inches being left at the bot- 

 tom, and one inch at the top, with a good margain at each side, 

 to avoid friction. It is hinged at the top and opens up into the 

 box. The hinges are placed on the front of the door rather than 

 at the center or rear, the better to secure complete closing action. 

 The trap consists of one piece of stiff wire about three-sixteenths 

 of an inch in diameter and 22 inches long. This piece of wire is 

 shaped so that a section of it, 1 1 inches long, rests directly across 

 the circular opening in the division board and is held in place 

 by two clamps, one on either side of the circular opening. The 

 clamps fit loosely and the slots are long enough to allow the wire 

 to work up and down about three inches, without much friction. 

 The next section of the wire is eight inches long and it is bent 

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