TRAPS FOR POULTRY PESTS 99 



if not equally so to the career of the chicken. This 

 bounty is usually voted at the town meeting. At times 

 it has been left for the town council to fix the sum, 

 never being more than twenty-five cents per head, and 

 some years a lesser sum. 



Various devices to prevent the near approach of 

 the above-mentioned birds are noticed about here, 

 among which may be mentioned the small windmill 

 so arranged that at each revolution a rapid and noisy 

 clapping is produced. Another arrangement quite 

 generally in vogue is to erect long poles about the 

 chicken yard, a stout cord extending from pole to 

 pole at top, to which cord are appended multicolored 

 strips of cloth. This method, while it prominently 

 advertises the location of the tender morsel, is sup- 

 posed to intimidate its wary foe. 



For catching hawks, the only effective device 

 seems to be a common steel jaw trap set where the 

 bird is most likely to alight. A good location is on 

 the top of a common fence rail or a long pole, set 

 firmly in the ground. It is best located on some 

 moderately high point in the middle of a field near the 

 chicken lot, as indicated in Figure 94. In Figure 95 

 are shown details of arranging the trap. 



