. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable ... Poultry; Eggs Production. BREEDING FOR EGGS sixteenths of an inch in diameter and eighteen and one-half inches long, bent as shown in the drawing. (See illustration on page 46.) A piece of board six inches wide and just long enough to reach across the box inside is nailed flatwise in front of the partition and one inch below the top of the box, a space of one quarter of an inch being left bet
. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable ... Poultry; Eggs Production. BREEDING FOR EGGS sixteenths of an inch in diameter and eighteen and one-half inches long, bent as shown in the drawing. (See illustration on page 46.) A piece of board six inches wide and just long enough to reach across the box inside is nailed flatwise in front of the partition and one inch below the top of the box, a space of one quarter of an inch being left between the edge of the board and the partition. The purpose of this board is only to support the trip wire in place. The six-inch section of the trip wire is placed across the board and the long part of the wire slipped through the quarter-inch slot and passed down close to and in front of the center of the seven and one-half inch circular opening. Small wire staples are driven near- ly down over the six-inch section of the trip wire into the board, so as to hold it in place and yet let it roll side- ways easily. When the door is set the half-inch section of the wire marked A comes under a hard wood peg, or a tack with a large round head, which is driven into the lower edge of the door frame. The hen passes in through the circular opening and in doing so presses the wire to one side and the trip slips from its connection with the door. The door promptly swings down and fastens it- self in place by its lower edge, striking the light end of a wooden latch or lever, pressing it down and slip- ping over it, the lever imme- diately coming back into place and locking the door. The latch is five inches long, one inch wide and a half- inch thick, and is fastened loosely one inch from its center to the side of the box, so that the outer end is just inside of the door when it is closed. The latch acts quickly enough to catch the door before it rebounds. * * Strips of old rubber belting wer
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