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down one side. Then set the water dish within, and 

 the fowls can drink through the slats. The top of the 

 box, or cover, should be sloping, to keep the fowls off 

 from it. 



Water for Ducks Where no pool of water is at 

 hand for ducks, a small pool can easily be made for 

 them, as in Figure 31. Dig a square hole eight inches 

 deep and as large as desired. Put eight-inch boards 

 around the sides. Now tamp down the bottom hard 

 and level, and coat the surface with an inch of cement, 

 bringing the coating up to the top of the boards at the 

 sides, of the same thickness as the bottom. Drive shin- 

 gle nails thickly into the boards to give the cement 

 something to cling to. In the same way a pool for a 

 "water garden" can be made for the growing of 

 aquatic plants. 



Where the object is merely to supply the abun- 

 dance of drinking water so necessary to young ducks 

 at feeding time, a large flat trough, as in Figure 32, 

 will answer the purpose. 



