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grain constantly before the fowls probably feed nearly as much 

 to rats and sparrows as to fowls. Poultry should be fed in- 

 doors; every poultry house should be rat proof, and all openings 

 should be covered with cellar wire netting which will keep out 

 rats, mice and sparrows and save the poultryman more than 



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Fig. 8. — Diagram for cutting out the parts of a funnel trap 48 by 24 by 15 inches. 

 (After Biological Survey.) 



Fig. 9. — Receiving box for removing sparrows from trap. 

 (After Biological Survey.) 



its cost in a single year. Where poultry foods are thus pro- 

 tected sparrows may be caught with ease. Any poultryman 

 may catch large numbers of sparrows in winter by closing all 

 but one opening in a henhouse and enticing the birds in by 

 means of grain. After they have been well fed in this building 

 for a week or two, and have become accustomed to feed there 

 in numbers, the opening may be closed from a distance by 



