March, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS iil 
the use of a screw driver if the hinges are 
the kind which come in two parts and are 
held together by a pin. It is necessary 
merely to pull out the pin. 
A nest box may be fastened to the wall 
by having two holes bored in the back to 
fit two long screws. Then it may be lifted 
off at any time and thoroughly cleaned. 
Nests do not have to be dark, but it is well 
not to have a platform in front for a hen to 
stand on. There is likely to be quarreling 
then between a hen which has taken pos- 
session of the nest and another one which 
covets it. An orange crate makes an ex- 
cellent double nest except for the very large 
breeds. 
There are feeding and watering devices 
almost without number. The fact is, 
though, that most of the practical poultry- 
men, to whom time is literally money, use 
a pail on a shelf for watering their birds. 
There is nothing simpler. One filling will 
last all day; being above the floor, no lit- 
ter is scratched into the pail and the exer- 
cise which comes from jumping up and 
down is good for the fowls. It is needless 
to say that a low shelf is used, so that they 
will not be injured when jumping to the 
floor. 
Dry feeding has greatly simplified poul- 
try-keeping, and with this method has come 
the hopper. There are many styles for 
sale, most of them being so arranged that 
they may be hung on the walls. Some will 
hold enough dry ground grain for a week 
or more. There are small ones for grit, 
oyster shells and charcoal. It is an easy 
matter to make a hopper at home, using a 
cracker or soap box. An inspection of a 
commercial hopper will show anybody how 
to do it. Grit and shell hoppers may be 
made from cigar boxes in a few minutes. 
They are better than open boxes because 
cleaner and less wasteful. Some of the hop- 
pers sold at the stores have a distinct ad- 
vantage in that they are made of metal and 
have a hood or cover which may be dropped 
over them at night, thus keeping out rats 
and mice. A cleverly designed little chick 
hopper is made rat-proof merely by turning 
it on its side. 
In many cases the loss of grain eaten by 
rodents is considerable. It may be avoided 
by using one of the hoppers just described 
for dry mash and a patented but fairly in- 
expensive feeder and exerciser for whole 
or cracked grain. This device is a good 
one for the man with a few hens but in- 
volves too large an investment for the 
owner of a large flock. Below a reser- 
voir of metal containing the grain is a lever, 
at the bottom of which is a wire tube, 
through which corn or other grain shows. 
The fowls peck at this grain, the lever is 
moved and down comes a shower of grain. 
The birds will work at this device much of 
the day and clean up all the grain which is 
dropped. When it is used, only a little lit- 
ter is required. 
One prominent poultry-keeper feeds soft 
mash once a day and puts it in a trough 
which extends the entire length of the front 
of the long house which he uses. When the 
house was built a very wide sill was in- 
stalled in front, and the part of this sill 
which came inside the house was made 
into a feeding trough. Many fowls may be 
fed at the same time and they cannot get 
into the trough. 
Many poultry houses are built with doors 
which are far too narrow. In order really 
to be as convenient as possible, the door 
ought to be sufficiently wide so that a wheel- 
barrow may be pushed through it. This is 
especially true of a house which is larger 
than eight by ten feet, for it will greatly 
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