THIRTY USEFUL DEVICES 



105 



large size costs about seventy-five cents. It may be 

 fitted with a homemade handle. 



To clean poultry roosts, feed troughs, and for 

 scraping trees. Figure 100 shows a handy implement. 

 It is an old hoe with the edges, a a, cut as illustrated 

 so as to make it of triangular shape. The blade should 

 be sharpened occasionally to scrape easily. The 

 points often come handy in loosening hard or sticky 

 matter in the corners. 



FIG IOI : DUST BATH 



In the lower corner of the illustration, Figure 100, 

 is shown a barrel with roosts around the top, so that 

 the greater part of the manure from the roosting fowls 

 is caught in the barrel, where it gives no further 

 trouble, except to add a little dry earth or coal ashes 

 once in a while. 



Dust Baths Figure 101 shows a space boxed off 

 as a dust bath in the sunniest spot in the house, just 

 below a window. If the box is raised a foot or two 

 from the floor, the floor space beneath will be avail- 

 able for the fowls or for nests. For a flock of twenty, a 



