CHAPTER I 



DEVICES FOR FEEDING 



A considerable part of the soft food is spoiled and 

 wasted where it is fed on the ground or on boards and 

 shingles. Where one hundred fowls are kept and 

 twice the number of chickens raised, the loss by such 

 methods may be reckoned at three to five bushels of 

 feed a year. Feeding troughs are easily made, and will 

 quickly save their value, besides tending to prevent the 

 spread of disease so often resulting from placing the 

 food where the fowls can soil it. 



FIG I : FEEDING TROUGHS 



Troughs and Boxes — Figure i shows at the 

 left of the illustration a feed trough that hens cannot 

 roost upon, cannot get their feet into, and at which 

 they cannot well ciuarrel. A V-shaped body, with ends 

 as shown, is made and a hinged cover placed so as to 

 fold up against the long slope of the ends. A stout 

 wire is strung from the top of one end to the top of 

 the other, and from this wires extend down to nails 

 driven into the front edge of the trough. When the 

 food has been placed inside and the cover closed, the 

 hens eat by sticking their heads through the up- 

 right wires. 



