CHAPTER 1. 



INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING AND USING THE 

 IDEAL TRAP NEST. 



PATENTED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 



THE IDEAL NEST BOX. 



THE IDEAL NEST BOX may be prepared from any box that is 

 large enough to give comfortable room for a hen. It may be as 

 large as desired, but should not be less than twelve inches wide, and 

 should be at least 10 inches deep for Mediterraneans, 12 to 14 for Am- 

 ericans, and 14 to 16 for Asiatics, and high enough for the hen to stand 

 erect (making - due allowance for nest material) without touching her 

 head to the top. Common soap boxes, canned-goods boxes and the 

 like, stood on end, are often of suitable dimensions and are admirable 

 for the purpose. With such boxes as these, the front and back referred 

 to in these directions are what were, in the original box, the top and 

 bottom. And the top and bottom of our nest box are the original ends. 

 Having selected a suitable box the cover should be carefully removed 

 and the pieces cleated together to form the front for our nest box (see 

 fig 1). These cleats should be nailed on 8 in. apart (C to D and S to 

 T). Care must be taken that the nails do not project on the inside. 



Saw an opening in this front of the following dimensions: (see fig. 

 1), mark out with pencil first. (For sake of clearness we will suppose 

 that the box is 19 inches high when stood on end). Beginning at C. 6 

 inches from the bottom A, mark from C to K.. S inches; K to G, S 

 inches; G to D, H inches. Mark the angles J to L aud-I to II (from G 

 to H should be 2 inches; G to I, 2 inches; J (<> K, :! iuches; and K to 

 L, :t inches). 



Now saw from D to II, M to J, N to J, C to L; split out the pieces 

 and finish off to angles L, J and II, I and round edges with a knife; 

 this leaves in our front an opening s inches high and S inches wide, 

 with angles in (lie corners as shown in the figure. In no ci-nc should 

 t/i.ese angles be omitted. 



The top deal Q should be al least ;i inches wide, and the lower cleat 

 li not less I ban 2 inches wide. The lower edge of the opening O (K, C) 

 should be at least ;} inches above the bottom of the box, inside, so that 



