THIRTY USEFUL DEVICES 115 



For catching poultry, use. a hook as in Figure 

 112. It is made from a rod three or four feet long 

 with a bent wire at the end. The end of the rod should 

 be ferruled or bound with fine wire. The fowl is 

 looped by one foot and carefully drawn in the de- 

 sired direction. 



FIG 112: HOOK FOR CATCHING POULTRY 



Exerciser for Ducks Duck breeders often have 

 trouble in securing fertile eggs because of lack of ex- 

 ercise for the breeding birds. The method described 

 by H. H. Stoddard in the New Egg Farm, published 



FIG 113: DUCK' AT EXERCISE 



by Orange Judd company, overcomes this obstacle by 

 providing a series of swimming tanks- under feed 

 cylinders or feeding boards, as shown in Figure 113. 

 A ditch is cut and boarded 1 at sides and bottom, c 

 showing the original surface of the ground, e an 



