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vessel is better because it is supposed to keep the 

 water cleaner. Practically the open vessel is easier 

 to keep clean, and further is less dangerous to the 

 health of the fowls when not absolutely clean, 

 because air and light, the great puritiers, get into it 

 ae they do notiiito a closed vessel. An objection sonae 

 — mostly novice." — make to the use of open vessels is. 



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 that occasionally the fowls void their 

 droppings into the water. It must be 

 admitted that the sight of a drinking 

 vessel so polluted oiTends the senses, 

 but as a matter of fact neither fowl* 

 nor other animals are as nice as refine* 

 human beings about matters of thi» 

 kind, and no harm results from occa- 

 sional pollutions of this kind which are 

 removed at the next watering. As a 

 further matter of fact, the dust wbicb 

 in any poultry houseor yard will often, 

 get into a drinking vessel, whether 

 open or protected, is as dirty and more 

 dangerous. By using open vessels that 

 Dark Nest to Bang on Wall. ^^^ as deep as the fowls can drink 



A— Exterior View. B— Interior View, a— block to hold nest , , , , . , 



ia place. from, and no larger in circumference- 



than necessary to keep them from being easily upset, very little droppings will get into 

 them. It is the wide shallow pan that catches the droppings. 



Nests for Laying Hens. 



Number of Nests Needed. — The old method was to provide almost as many nests as there 

 were hens in the flock. Indeed I have before me an old drawing of a model poultry house for 

 twenty-four hens in which there were 

 twenty-four nests. It was early observed 

 and continues to be observed, that no 

 matter how many nests are provided, the 

 hens usually all go to a certain few of the 



nests, and rather than lay elsewhere will Dark Nests to Go Under Droppings boards. 



crowd on those nests or sit near them waiting their turns. 



