10 POULTRY APPLIANCES AND HANDICRAFT 



Feeding for Exercise — Plenty of eggs and fertile 

 ones never come from fowls that are allowed to stuff 

 themselves and sit on roosts and boxes all the time until 

 they become sluggish and overfat. The feed board 

 illustrated in Figure 14 is recommended by H. H. Stod- 

 dard. A series of boards are firmly joined to reach 

 across all the pens, being attached by wires to the raft- 

 ers. A supply of fine grain, like wheat, is placed on the 

 boards over each pen, and shaken down a little at a time 

 by a blow from a hammer applied at one end. The 

 grain falls into several inches of litter below, and the 

 fowls scratch for it. 



