POULTRY ON A TOWN LOT 97 



Often the problem is not lack of land as much 

 as lack of time. Many commuters would like to 

 keep a few hens if they did not find it necessary 

 to leave home early in the morning, perhaps with 

 no assurance of getting home again until after dark. 

 If the wife or some other member of the family 

 may be interested in the hen-keeping project, the 

 birds will not suffer for lack of feed and water ; but 

 it frequently happens that nobody in the family 

 wants to bother with them — and the work is a 

 bother unless one has a genuine liking for well-bred 

 poultry. 



There is a way of meeting this difficulty and keep- 

 ing even a good-sized flock with only ten or fifteen 

 minutes attention each day and with an extra hour 

 on Saturday or Sunday, when a general cleaning 

 may be indulged in. By means of a patent feeder 

 and exerciser which costs $2.50 and a patent water 

 fountain costing one dollar, combined with the use 

 of hoppers for dry mash, as already described, the 

 commuting poultry keeper can entirely dispense with 

 daily feeding and watering. 



The feeder holds from eight to thirty-two quarts 

 of grain, a few kernels of which drop out every time 

 a bait bar under the machine is moved. This bar 



