52 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
placed for her on the floor. In this case, a pane of seven 
by nine glass ought to be inserted in the top, or on the 
fixed side. At hatching-time she should be shut in un- 
til she brings off her brood. It is, moreover, important 
that a portion of the top (¢) should be removable, or 
hinged on so that an attendant may have access to the 
interior at any time. Access to the nest by egg-eating 
dogs is by this method entirely prevented, unless the 
dogs are very small, in which case a board a little 
wider than the door, placed six inches infront of it, and 
nailed firmly both at top and bottom, will exclude even 
them. 
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A BROODING-PEN FOR HENS, 
We have for several years used enclosed brooding-pens 
for hens with much satisfaction. Success with poultry 
depends wholly upon the convenient and effective man- 
Fig. 33.—Broopine-PEn. 
agement of the brood hens and the chicks. When heng 
cannot help it, they will do as their owners wish, and 
there are then peace and comfort and prosperity in the 
poultry-house. These pens are built around a part of 
