Show Catching Chickens H Helps in Culling Best Way Is to Have Crates With Wire Sides Catching the chickens Is a 0 large part of the work work involved In culling and experience shows that an any help helpIn In this direction I Ip is valuable The best way way to catch chickens for tor culling says H. H E. E Botsford of the New York State College of Agriculture at nt Ithaca Is to have hare one or more more catching crates rates about four feet long one and a half halt feet high and two feet wide The crates should have wire sides and one end should be removable The crate Is la placed liere the birds le leave ye th Lbs tha hen henhouse ouse and they are driven Into It Another good method Is to construct a small catching pen outside or of eZ ch building where the birds are to be caught says Professor Drive four stakes Into the ground on one on either side of ot the exit eDt and the the other two stakes four feet away each pair two feet apart Join the stakes top and bottom with narrow strips of boards Tack two-Inch two mesh wire around the sides and outer end Fasten wire across the top leaving one side free The birds may then be driven into the the pen and and ca caught easily For work Inside the house he suggested suggested suggested sug sug- the following Take ten or twelve welve feet of poultry wire five or six feet high and fasten a strip of one-by- one two Inch material at each end Fasten I several pieces of two two-by- two four our about three feet long to the bottom of the wire Nail NaU one me end to the wall five feet from a corner coiner The other end Is swung wung out Into the room and twenty twenty- five or thirty birds can easily be I rounded up and passed to the culler |