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PROFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



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provides a smooth surface is most popular, prefer- 

 ably the boards should be about 20 inches wide 

 for single roosts and 3 feet wide for double ones. 

 They should have strips of light material about 2 

 inches wide extending above their edges to prevent 

 the scattering of the droppings; they should be 

 cleaned every day. 



STYLES OF NESTS 



Nests are probably the next most important 

 necessity in the poultry house and may be made of 



any kind of material, style 

 or character, provided 

 there are no egg-eating 

 hens in the flock. Grocery 

 boxes are very popular in 

 such cases, but where 

 many hens are kept, and 

 where sitting hens cannot 

 be put in some building 

 apart from the main flock, 

 the nests should be ar- 

 ranged to fit such condi- 

 An orange box without tions. Preferably the nests 



back and hinged to the wall v , j , , , 



is quickly cleaned by lift- snoulQ be darkened and 

 '"^' placed in secluded parts of 



the house or even in the yard. A favorite place 

 for them is beneath the roosting platform. Where 

 egg eating is discovered, the dark nest is one of the 

 best ways to eliminate the habit. A nest which 

 -allows the egg to roll beyond the hen's reach is 

 even better. 



Trap nests in considerable variety are illustrated 

 throughout this volume. (Pages 100 and loi.) 

 Their principal advantage is that they show the 



HANDY NESTS 



