4 POULTRY APPLIANCES AND HANDICRAFT 



shown in Figure 6. It is self -delivering, but the grat- 

 ing or wire netting over the front keeps the fowls from 

 throwing the material out with their bills, and thus 

 wasting it. Kept before them in this way the hens 

 need never be out of the necessary articles. 



A similar feeder with single compartment and no 

 grating is shown at the right of the preceding in Figure 



7 finches. 



FIG 5 I FEEDING HOPPER 



7. It is filled at the top and is self-feeding. For winter 

 use as grit nothing is quite so good as the small quarry 

 stone fragments which may be obtained for almost 

 nothing at any stoneyard. These are kept on hand, 

 sifted to the right size, at the poultry supply stores and 

 are now quite commonly used by the best professional 

 poultry men. If there is no quarry or stoneyard near by, 

 a grit that will answer very well is a barrel or two of 

 gravelly sand, some of which should be shoveled into 



