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should be made so readily accessible that the 
birds will not be obliged to make any extra 
effort to obtain it. 
While the hopper shown requires a little 
more frequent attention than do some of the 
deeper hoppers, this fact is indirectly an 
advantage, because the poultryman should 
keep an accurate record of the amount and 
pounds of mash and scratch feed his birds 
consume each week, and this record is more 
easily obtained in using a small hopper than 
in using large hoppers which may furnish a 
month’s supply of mash. 
Water Containers. The water contain- 
ers should be such as can be easily cleaned, 
should be inexpensive, and, like the mash 
hopper, should be easily accessible. 
The best water container to use for summer 
or winter is an ordinary twelve- or fourteen- 
quart galvanized-iron pail. In the summer 
it is set on the floor inside of a frame which 
prevents the birds from tipping the pail 
over, and which furnishes them with a plat- 
form upon which they can stand. In winter, 
if in a climate where freezing occurs, this 
same pail is set into a small box lined with 
