;i,S THE TRAP NEST TEXT HOOK 



Poultry breeding is getting down to a genuine business- proposition 

 and no man ean foretell Hie outcome. The time may come, possibly, 

 when more breeders can produce birds that will substantiate their ad- 

 vertized claims. 



USING THE NESTS OPEN. 



The Ideal is especially adapted for those who are unable, or do not 

 wish to keep continuous individual egg records. There are many 

 cases where it is desirable to separate the layers from the non-layers. 

 A hen that is laying requires more food than when she is not laying 

 and it is impossible to feed a flock properly that contains laying and 

 non-laying hens running together. 



It is by no means necessary to keep count of the number of i'gg>> laid 

 by each hen for a whole year in order to determine if she is a good lav- 

 el". That absurd idea has produced lots of trouble for many people. 

 Incidentally the idea has been responsible for much ignorant writing on 

 both sides of the question. We cannot, in any general extent, deter- 

 mine a hen's value as a layer without a record, in black and white, of 

 her laying habit. 



It does not require a year to get this however. When, for any 

 reason, it is desirable to use the Ideal as an open nest all we have to do 

 is to push up the trap plate and tighten the screw. If the opening in 

 the top, shown in tig. 5 of plan sheet, is made, the trap plate can be 

 raised on top of the pawl. 



Mr. Victor D. Caneday makes his Ideal nest boxes 14 inches wide 

 and by raising the trap plate high enough the pawl drops down out of 

 the way and the trap plate will then move buck and forth without lock- 

 ing. The hen pushes her way in as usual and pushes her way out after 

 laying. Mr. t'aneday likes this plan much better than mine. This 

 will not work unless the box is about 13 or 14 inches wide. 



By using the nests as trap* when convenient, we can determine which 

 birds are laying and the kind of eggs thai they are giving us. 



By using them as traps during the spring, we And the birds that are 

 laving the most eggs per week or month anil can identify the hen that 

 produces each egg that we use for hatching. 



By using the nests an traps in the fall with the pullets, we find which 

 are the first U> lay, which start in laying freely and the kind of egg each 

 is giving us. With the hens we can pick out and note those that lay 

 during their molt. In short we can use Ihe Ideal as open nest* or traps 

 dd Illiitiiui and they arc the best of their kind either way. 



I recommend thai continuous records be kept whenever it is possible 

 and all of Ihe advantages of the individual sysleni be derived. 



