Morgan County Star | 1912-09-07 | Page 6 | Teaching Hen Good Lesson

TEACHING HEN GOOD LESSON poultry gats gat as a shown in the illustration will save and garden truck barrels of perspiration may be saved by the poultry gate shown herewith which la Is reproduced with the article from the new england homestead whoever has unintentionally tio nally acquired the hen chasing hen bussing cussing habit may cure himself with this little device I 1 in therence the fence preferably at a point near where the fowls aae aze fed a little door about 10 by 12 inches la Is hung on the inside of 0 the yard so as aa to always swing awing shut without springs it la is stopped from swinging outward by the peg shown at the right mrs ilen hen returning repentant from the tha garden will poke her bead into every mesh of the fence in her efforts to rejoin her happy companions the gate will thus allow her to enter without excitement or commotion fr from the lord of the harem from the irate owner out but another advantage may be gained by using the gate in connection with the I 1 laying ying pens pena if the two gates are used ono one opening inward CS garden or net nest gate la in iron front of the nest the other opening outward at the back or the side so 10 that the hens may go to another yard after laying the tryman may know which hens hena have and have not laid thus he be may avoid the rouble usually connected with erdl aary trap trad nests nesta