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The mash box should hang well up from the 

 floor, away from flying bits of litter. A foot 'or 

 eighteen inches will be high enough.. Bore small 

 holes in the back at the top. Nail heads will pass 

 through these and hold the box firmly in place. 



A low perch should be fixed in front of it, level 

 with the lower edge, and about six inches away. 



Grit and Shell Boxes. — Grit and shells should 

 always be where fowls of all ages can get them, and 

 their absence from the laying house will be fatal. 

 If we add dty cjacked bone in the laying house, 

 and charcoal, under certain conditions, we shall 

 add to our success with the flock. 



I spent ten years trying various hoppers for 

 feeding these condiments ito fowls, and have come 

 down to a very simple plan. The bone is thrown 

 into the tray of the dry-mash box. There it 

 mixes with the dry mash more or 'less, but is soon 

 eaten, when more may be thrown in. The grit 

 and shells are mixed in the box described below. 

 As there is much gravel on .the floor of the house, 

 and sifted coal ashes are always present, these hens 

 eat little grit. Where grit on the floor is absent, a 

 separate grit box wiU be necessary. If charcoal is 

 served, that can be put into the same kind of box. 



