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opened for the entrance of another layer. After each 

 hen has laid, the attendant removes her, and each hen 

 has a band with a number attached to her leg and the 

 eggs ma}- be numbered to correspond. This process 

 is gone through in the attempt to pick out the best 

 layers to keep over for breeders and the experiment 

 station hopes to establish a strain of wonderful layers. 



FIG 66: TRAP NEST BOXES 



For those who wish to make their own lioxes, 

 the following directions are supplied by Professor 

 Gowell of the Maine station : 



It is a box-like structure, without front end or 

 cover, twenty-eight inches long, thirteen inches wide 

 and thirteen inches dee- inside measurements. A 



