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good layer, it will be possible to improve the laying quali- 
ties of our flocks until from an average of 64 eggs in a 
year flocks may be built up which will lay from 150 to 
200 eggs ina year. Not every one has time to take care 
of trapnests, but every one might select a few hens and 
test them by trapnesting and from these hatch chickens 
for the improvement of the flock. It does not require 
much time to attend to a flock that is being trapnested. 
The writer has seen the trapnests in which 400 hens were 
laying gone over in 30 minutes and about four visits a 
day are enough. Where a dozen or two hens are being 
trapnested the time required would be only a few min- 
utes four or five times a day and in the end it would pay 
to take this trouble. 
TRAPNESTS, HOW TO MAKE.—The trapnest here 
described was invented by Prof. James Dryden of the 
Oregon station .several years ago, and it has been used 
by him in his experiments and by several other experi- 
ment stations with perfect success. It can be made by 
any one who can use a saw and drive a nail. It can be 
made out of one board 1”x10’x12’, as shown by the oppo- 
site diagram. There is no patent on the Dryden trap- 
nest, and Prof. Dryden has publicly announced that any- 
one is at liberty to make and use it. The description may 
not seem plain on casual reading but if the directions are 
followed, a step at a time, it will be found that the build- 
ing of the trapnest is involved in no difficulties whatever. 
The following is the material used: 
1 board 1°x12"x10’; 6 screw eyes No. 210, bright; 2 
pieces round iron 3/16"x12"; 2 pieces rawhide 9”x12” 
With a square lay off the board, as shown in the dia- 
gram. The shaded places are waste pieces of the board. 
The solid black lines show where the board is to be cut. 
