EGG PRODUCTION 
be but little trouble. It sometimes hap- 
pens, however, that one of your best 
layers develops the egg-eating habit. You 
can save the eggs of such a hen by using 
one of those patent trap-nests that has a 
hole in the bottom to let’ the egg roll down 
out of reach of the hen. 
If a good many of your flock should 
develop this bad habit, you can keep them 
from eating the eggs by putting canvas 
bottoms in all of your nests with a hole 
in the center just large enough to let the 
egg drop through; this hole should be 
worked like a button-hole, so it will not 
ravel out and get too large; this canvas 
bottom should bag down enough so that 
it will assume the shape of the bottom of 
an ordinary hen’s nest. Beneath this 
canvas bottom, and two and one-half 
inches below it, there should be another 
piece of cloth to catch the egg when it 
~drops through the bottom of the nest. 
This under piece of cloth should not have 
any hole in it, but should slant enough to 
one side so that when the egg drops onto 
it, through the hole in the upper canvas, 
it will roll to that side out of the reach 
of the hen. The side towards which the 
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