Excerpt from Poultry Appliances Handicraft: How to Make Use Labor-Saving Devices With Descriptive Plans for Food Water Supply Building Miscellaneous Needs; Also Treats on Artificial Incubation Brooding A good feeder for dry cooked feed or dry meal and grain for chicks is Shown in Figure 4. Make a trough exactly as for a pig except that it has a crack one-fourth of an inch wide at the bottom. Raise the trough a little above the ground by means of two strips, c, fastened to the ends, b, and' place a board, d, beneath the crack Of sufficient width that the chicks may eat from it; two and one-half inches is sufficient. Cover the top, d, and the trough is complete. By it the food is kept fresh and clean, yet the chicks may help themselves at any time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.