HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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March, 1912 
Better tools mean 
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I lay in a good supply of orange boxes 
beforehand. These seldom cost me any¬ 
thing, as the dealers are glad to get them 
out of the way. Each orange box makes 
two nice nests. I sometimes fill them with 
shavings and sometimes with second-crop 
clover. A little dry sulphur or wood ashes 
on the floor of the nest, below the litter, is 
a good preventive of nest lice, but these 
vermin will seldom make trouble before 
the first of June, and all my chickens are 
hatched before then. 
Three or four nest eggs are placed in 
each nest, and a board is neatly fitted to 
the front, so as quite to cover the opening 
and leave the sitters in darkness, except 
for the cracks along the edges of the box. 
Even these are curtained by sacking flung 
over the boxes, which rest upon the floor. 
Having made all these preparations, I 
lift the sitters from their chosen places as 
gently as possible and transfer them to the 
new places and the cold china eggs. My 
liens are Wyandottes and Rhode Island 
Reds, very tame and gentle, and they sel¬ 
dom make the slightest resistance. They 
are shut in the new locations and left for 
twenty-four hours in the dark and quiet. 
Taking the eggs to be set, I go to the 
coop with corn and fresh water. There is 
grit on the floor and also litter in which 
the hens can scratch. I take down the 
board, push back the sacking and pull all 
the hens off their nests, placing them near 
the food and drink. While they are exer¬ 
cising I remove the china eggs and substi¬ 
tute the real ones chosen. As the hens are 
not large, I set only thirteen eggs under 
each one during the month of March. 
After the first of April I set fifteen. By the 
time these eggs are in the nests some of 
the hens will begin to want to go back. 
Even this first morning most of them will 
find their nests without assistance. If one 
of them is contrary, I catch her and put 
her on; hut I wait to see whether she set¬ 
tles down on the eggs. This is almost 
always the case, and I can then shut them 
in for another twenty-four hours. 
Every morning when the hens in the 
main coop have been fed and watered, I go 
into the sitting room and pull off the hens 
for food, water and exercise. They go 
back of themselves, and are shut in before 
the eggs can chill. I find corn a model 
food for sitting hens, and feed it exclu¬ 
sively. 
As the floor space is small, I do not let 
more than six hens out at a time; so in the 
thickest of sitting-time, when I have a 
dozen hens on, I release them in two re¬ 
lays. As my hens average rather more 
than twelve chicks to a sitting, it is not 
necessary to set more than sixteen hens in 
order to obtain the two hundred chickens 
which I fix as my limit. 
Since I alwaj’s plan to have at least 
three hens come off at the same time, I 
can divide up the three broods between two 
hens, giving the two that seem gentlest 
eighteen chickens apiece, and breaking up 
the extra sitter. 
{Continued on page 62) 
