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a plane, and a hammer, with a few nails, could make one in a 
few hours, which would cost little or nothing. 
Poultry Feeding-Hopper — Fig. 4. 
First make a platform of boards, say three feet square, then 
make a square sixteen inches in diameter, of strips of an inch and 
a quarter plank, three inches wide; nail this in the centre of the 
platform; saw four strips one and a quarter inches square, for the 
posts, which should be about eighteen inches high; nail strips of 
plank two inches wide to the posts at top, to secure and steady 
them; then take common sawed lath, or thin strips of board one 
and a half inches wide, and nail them to the top and bottom, up 
and down, leaving a space of two inches between each slat, which 
will enable the fowls to insert their heads to pick the grain. The 
roof may be formed four square, like the figure, or may be made 
flat, or pitch on two sides, like the roof of a house, and should be 
detached, so that it can be moved when grain is to be put in. 
Now, to make it proof against rats and mice, it will be necessary 
to elevate it a few feet from the ground, and this can be done by 
suspending it with wires, or setting it on a post firmly set in the 
ground, as represented in the figure. The wires being small and 
smooth, they could not pass down on them, and the platform pro- 
jecting so far from the post, they would find it rather inconvenient 
to climb over the edge of the platform. 
The fowls will soon learn to leap upon the platform, and feed 
from the grain-box between the slats. From ten to twelve fowls 
can feed at the same time. 
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