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THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



be less in the way and not so likely to be broken. The addition 

 of wheels to the platform would make it still more convenient. 

 As chickens furnish a large part of the meat used on the 

 farm in the summer, and when killed in the 

 ordinary way often bruise and dirty them- 

 selves, we give an illustration (Fig. 19) of 

 an arrangement for holding them while cut- 

 ting off their heads and afterwards while 

 bleeding. The post should be set firmly 

 in the ground and the top sawed off square. 

 Saw a notch in a board to receive the fowl's 

 neck, and nail to the back of the post. 

 Make the hoppers eight inches square at the 

 top and let them taper to two inches at the 

 bottom. As soon as the head is cut off, drop the fowl in the 

 hopper, neck down. It can not bruise itself, and is in a position 

 to drain all the blood out of its body. Any one will appreciate 

 this who has had his clothes dabbled with blood, or who has 

 been obliged to hunt ten minutes for a chicken that had flopped 

 fifty feet into the high, wet weeds on a dewy morning, and find 

 it dripping and dirty. 



FIG. 19. KILLING-POST 

 FOR FOWLS. 



FIG. 20. To PREVENT SELF-SUCKING. 



FIG. 21. ANOTHER METHOD TO PREVENT 

 SELK-SUCKING. 



Figs. 20 and 21 show a cheap and convenient device to pre- 

 vent a cow from sucking herself. Either style may be used and 

 will be found effectual. 



