SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
market. It is a nest that has two doors, 
so arranged that when a hen goes in one 
door and lays an egg she can go out at 
the other, and if she does not lay she will 
have to go out at the same door she went 
in at. This nest can be placed in the par- 
tition between two pens and the hens all 
placed in one pen, and all the hens that 
lay during the day, in this nest, will pass 
through into the other pen. By the use 
of this nest, it will be seen, an egg record 
of a pen of hens can be kept without the 
trouble of going to the nest to release 
every hen that enters it. This is a great 
saving of time and labor for the poultry- 
man. While I have not tried the machine, 
it looks good, and, if it works as well as 
the manufacturers claim it does, it is cer- 
tainly a good thing. Poultrymen have 
heretofore tried trap-nesting a flock of 
hens with a partition trap-nest that would 
let the hens in on one side and out on the 
other, whether they had laid or not, but 
such nests failed to give a correct record 
of the flock for the reason that a good 
many hens go on the nest and off again 
on the other side of the partition without 
laying. The new patent trap-nest, that 
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