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The Hen at Work 



Mash Boxes. — A box for dry mash should be 

 provided, no matter what the general plan of 

 feeding may be. There are many good metal 

 boxes, some with grated fronts, like that in the 

 picture. Of the two shown, the wooden box has 

 proved the better. It has a deep trough, from 



The soap box cut dorwnjor a dry mash hopper, 



and cover of front, cut so it will fit 



down into the tray 



which hens can throw nothing with their bills, 

 and no new food can be touched until all before 

 the fowls is eaten. There are always greedy hens, 

 good fighters, who crowd in when the box is 

 opened, and, if the box allows it, pick here and 

 there for pieces of beef scrap and morsels they hke 

 best. Then they leave the common victuals to 

 their weaker sisters. 

 To make a mash box like that in the illustration. 



