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280 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
Fasten the short one to it so as to make three ends 
about ten inches long. Fasten these at equal distances 
around the edge of the pan. Hang it by a string in the 
henhouse, so as to have the top edge six inches from the 
ground. The biddies can then reach and eat from it 
without being able to get into and soil the food. 
The old practice of feeding fowls on the ground should 
be abandoned. It was formerly supposed that the more 
sand, grit and dirt that was taken into the crop with 
the feed the better, but the ground plan conduces to 
disease, for there is a constant accumulation of filth, to 
say nothing of disease germs, on such places. Hither 
feed on a long broad board or from a trough, for fowls 
prefer cleanliness to filth at all times. It is also waste- 
ful to throw food upon the ground, to be trampled into 
the mud on wet days, 
there to ferment and 
cause annoyance from 
time to time, to say 
nothing of the strug- 
FIG. 110. FEED TROUGHS gles and combats that 
are more liable from the system. 
Economy in feeding is a very important chapter in 
the hen diary. When fowls are fed all they will eat, 
and food is left standing by them, it must be protected 
against waste. Arrange a box, opening at the top bya 
lid, and slats on two sides, running up and down. Put 
feed inside, so the fowls can get their heads in, but not 
their feet; or make a box-shaped coop, with slats run- 
ning up and down, open at the bottom, tight at the top. 
Place this over the feed dish. 
A simple and efficient feeding trough may be made by 
tacking a piece of tin about three and one-half inchee 
wide along the edge of a half-inch board, so that the tin 
projects about an inch and a half on either side of the 
board, bending the tin so as to form a shallow trough, 
