SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
egg rolls should be cushioned so that when 
the egg rolls against it there will be no 
danger of it breaking. There should be 
room enough on the under cloth for sev- 
eral eggs to roll out of the reach of the 
hens, for several different hens will lay 
in the nest during the day. The slant of 
the lower cloth bottom should be just 
enough so that the eggs will roll gently; 
for if the slant is too much, the eggs, after 
several have accumulated, will roll against 
one another hard enough to break them. 
The nest that I have told you about on 
page 37, if made a little deeper, will do 
for double canvas-bottom nests. Nail 
some cleats around the inside at the right 
height to tack the upper canvas to, and 
if the bottom edges of the box are slanted 
off a little, the lower canvas can be tacked 
on the bottom edges. The narrow strip 
across the front side at, or near, the bot- 
tom will need to be a little wider than it 
is for the solid wood-bottom nest. 
Keeping the fowls busy is one of the 
best preventive methods for overcoming 
bad habits. 
If you spend as much time among 
your fowls as you ought, you will discover 
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