. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . m^^f^m K i iiMiimi Fig. g. Chicken feeding trough with cover removed. chicks. An improved range trough obviates both of these dis-advantages and has other points to recommend it. The essentialfeatures of this trough are shown in Figs. lo to 12. The im-provements consist, first, in making the slatted front of thetrough removable as a w4iole, leaving then a flat board bottomwith a rail in front of it an inch high to hold the grain in the slat front removed the trough duplicates the condi-tions of the fiat chick feeding boa
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . m^^f^m K i iiMiimi Fig. g. Chicken feeding trough with cover removed. chicks. An improved range trough obviates both of these dis-advantages and has other points to recommend it. The essentialfeatures of this trough are shown in Figs. lo to 12. The im-provements consist, first, in making the slatted front of thetrough removable as a w4iole, leaving then a flat board bottomwith a rail in front of it an inch high to hold the grain in the slat front removed the trough duplicates the condi-tions of the fiat chick feeding board, used by many poultrykeepers for feeding chicks during the first two or three weeksof life. As the chicks grow older this slatted front can be puton the trough and held in place with the hooks and eyes shownin the photograph. MAINE AGR[CUI,TUR.\1, EXPERIMENT STATION, 45. o 46 METHODS OF POULTRY MANAGEMENT. A second improvement consists in hinging the top rather thanmaking it in one piece and removing as a whole, as was the casewith the older feed troughs at this Station. It will be notedthat this feed trough is open to the birds only from one reason for this arrangement is that it is designed to placethe feed troughs in holes cut in the longitudinal fences in therange yards, with the back part of the trough and the hingedcover extending into a long walk running the whole length ofthe range behind the yards. In this way the troughs can befilled from the outside without the necessity of going into theyard, opening gates, etc., thus reducing the labor cost of opera-tion considerably. Of course it is entirely possible to make troughs in accordancewith the principle of this improvement, with removable slattedopenings on both sides, to be set down in the middle of theyards so that the birds can get at the feed from both directions. The dimensions o
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