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impossible to make Some of them without special machinery and 

 costly tools. There are some men, however, for whom the pleas- 

 ure of making can never be equalled by the satisfaction of buy- 

 ing a ready-made article, hence there is a splendid opportunity 

 for them to exercise their ingenuity and skill as an amateur car- 

 penter and mechanic. 



Water Supply. — If left to her own inclinations a hen would 

 rather drink from a cow's hoof-print in preference to a fountain 



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Fig. loi. — Different arrangements for roosts and nests. A, Roosts and 

 nests suspended from rafters, clear of rear wall; B, roosts and nests built on 

 shelf attached to rear wall; C, a complicated arrangement; D, nests are too 

 low for convenience; E, no provision for nests; F, no dropping-boards — 

 manure falls to floor; G, wall arrangement for nests; H, open nest, which per- 

 mits fowls to roost upon it. 



of clean, fresh water; yet that is no reason why she should be 

 allowed to do so, any more fhan she should be permitted to eat 

 putrid animal matter, which this perverse creature is sure to do 

 if gfven the opportunity. Nature, it seems, has not seen fit to 

 modify the fowl's instincts to conform to a civilization more in- 

 tensive than was her original state; consequently, inasmuch as 

 we have taken upon ourselves the responsibility of surrounding 

 the hen with more or less artificial conditions, and induced her 

 to be several times more productive than normal, it behooves us 



