48 FEEDING-HOPPER. 



exclude vermin ; the hen hops on a pole, 

 which, by a spring, opens a little trap-door, 

 and presents the food to view. When she 

 is satisfied, she jumps off, and the trap-door 

 falls and closes. It is very ingenious, but 

 must be expensive, and liable to get out of 

 order. 



I saw in the Cultivator a description of a 

 feeding-hopper so superior to any yet in- 

 vented, that I immediately set about the 

 construction of one similar to it, with some 

 slight alterations. Any person can make it 

 after the following directions. In appear- 

 ance it resembles a long hen-coop, but with 

 a peaked roof, and is open on both sides. 

 Take a stout plank of the ordinary width, 

 Fig. i. and of any length, 



but it is scarcely 

 worth while to let 

 it exceed six feet, 

 unless you have 

 more than a hun- 

 dred fowls. To each end nail a piece of 

 the same plank, eighteen inches or two feet 

 high, in such a manner that the long plank 



