PLOVER NETTING. 



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some eighty-five meshes deep are made ; then net 

 one row twice and a half as large as the others, 

 missing every alternate mesh (see fig. 10). The 

 large meshes must be of string three times as thick 



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FIG. 9. 



FIG. 10. 



as the smaller ; the rope to be threaded through 

 the large meshes. This dropping every other mesh 

 along the head of the net gives the looseness that 

 is required to bag the birds striking it. 



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