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board are nailed across the ends. This trough will stand 

 steadily on the ground without trestles. 



Square wooden boxes may also be used, or pans made of any 

 of the materials mentioned above, and, provided simplicity of 

 design is adhered to, long or short troughs may be used with 

 equally good results. 



Fowls should be fed, so far as the weather permits, out of 

 doors, and when 'exposed to the weather the troughs will keep 

 sweeter than if placed ^under cover. But in the winter time 



Fig. 4.— Outdoor Nests Attached to Portable House. 



the feeding must be done largely in the shelter sheds, and in 

 this case it is advisable that the troughs should be exposed to 

 the weather between meals. 



Feeding Grain from Hoppers. — Within the past few years a 

 considerable change has taken place in the methods of feeding 

 poultry on large farms, and both old and young fowls are now 

 much more extensively fed on dry foods than they formerly 

 were. The dry feeding system has been adopted with very 

 great success by large feeders, and the feeding of fowls from 

 hoppers certainly means a large saving in the labour bill of an 



