Show ABOUT HENS boino of alio condition ecer to secure A lien is a fussy creature sho possesses 00 oo a good deal of what in the popular slang is called will power that Is aho baa tho feminine proclivity of doing very much as aho hag n mind to and this she even exerts in to laying aggi it might bo supposed eliat a hen cannot licup but lay eggs when tho fit is on hor but she can do ni n i she about this to a great extent and when arc not jihn to glicr mind alio will strike work as quickly as a yonkers campot weaver and leave bior neat in a hun and go off and icaco the egg abo would have laid so thai it to havo tho nests both convenient and comfortable and placed about the couo iu such i manner as will give the hens plenty of choice to suit themselves and oven then a good many of them will not bo suited after all that can bo done and will leave their eggs on ho bloor or in tho yard AS if in disgust at tho arrangements range ments but when ono understand alio nature of a lien tharo la a way of compelling her to do as wo want her by seeming to desire her to do something clo and tho young poultry keeper can not learn this knowledge in any belter war than by studying this subject of nests birds instinctively hido their nests and do aliis so effectively that it is next to impossible to find ft hens nest under n brush heap or in a fence although ono may walk right into it buo ouo may humor this habit by providing nests seem to kofl er seclusion and aro yet conveniently placed for the purpose of alio llio poultry keeper tho i chosen it may bo mado permanent by management au excellent way is to havo portable nest boxes which can bo lifted and moved when desirable this is very convenient when a lien begins to brood because sho will keep the nest sho has been using in of ill to prevent glicr the nest wo have bcd for years past is a box about sixteen inches square and twelve inches deep biado of two strip nailed two inches apart to solid end pieces twelve by sixteen inches and ono inch thick one of tho twelve inch sides has but two baths laths nailed at tho bottom BO as to make a nest sixteen inches square on tho ground with alm twelve inch having a front of lour inches at tho bottom to cutain the nc at in and loaec enaco for tho acu to walk in from thu ground tho sides and bottom provide amalu ventilation and coolness and as tho neat is set alio ground tho bottom 0 i abo conditions condi tiona winch tho stolen in tho bonco row proverbially the best of all utola bis h madlof soft hay and tha ox Is placed under tho 0 orothy protection provided in tho yard or in the corncrib corn cri of tho house brood i ala is quito large enough torn and i readily utter it has ejma removed elected by a brooding ben and with 0 tho apartment kept specially for abo bro odora for should h li 01 llast alil or which avoids much and of e cerv stuart in Y sius |