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take the run of the kitchen, as we rather 

 imagine they would more fi-equently apply to 

 those stores of grain than to the scraps which 

 we have recommended. There is also another 

 objection, arising from the difficulty of avoid- 

 ing waste if they are allowed to take the 

 seeds from open boxes : to prevent which, an 

 ingenious machine, as a feeding hopper, has 

 been invented — the description of which we 

 copy from the ' Prize Essays ' of the Highland 

 Society — that, when once filled, requires no 

 more trouble, as the grain falls down into 

 the receiver below, as the fowls pick it away. 

 It is, indeed, astonishing with what facility 

 they learn to leap upon the perch, and 

 open the cover of the receiver which contains 

 the grain, and which is raised by a spring 

 acted upon by the weight of the lead. 



