. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... epers. Often clouds of themwill regularly visit outside feeding places, especiallywhere chicks are fed, and will go through inch-mesh win-dow netting, to get at indoor feed hoppers. As poison-ing is unsafe because of the danger to fowls, about theonly means of exterminating them is by the use of one shown in Fig. 232 is practical and convenient. This trap is made of galvanized wire cloth, or halfinch poultry nettingJ|As here illustrated is about a yardin length, and 15 to^B inches high and wide. The endsof the trap are
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... epers. Often clouds of themwill regularly visit outside feeding places, especiallywhere chicks are fed, and will go through inch-mesh win-dow netting, to get at indoor feed hoppers. As poison-ing is unsafe because of the danger to fowls, about theonly means of exterminating them is by the use of one shown in Fig. 232 is practical and convenient. This trap is made of galvanized wire cloth, or halfinch poultry nettingJ|As here illustrated is about a yardin length, and 15 to^B inches high and wide. The endsof the trap are bent in as shown, and provided with a3-inch hole next to the ground. About this hole sharp-ened wire spurs are bent in so that while the birds haveno trouble in passing through, it is impossible for themto fly out again. The white spot near the center of thetrap is a piece of bread, used as bait. This trap is to beset on the ground on the lawn or in the poultry yard,and its efficiency will be increased if two or three spar-rows always are left in it as 231—.SIMPLE CARRYING CRATE FOR FOWLS Wheelbarrows and CartsA good wheelbarrow is an essential article of equip-ment on every poultry plant, and there is no economy intiying to get along without it. One with a flat bottomand removable sides is much better adapted to the poul-try keepers requirements than the cheaper kind withsloping bottom made for handling dirt, sand, etc. Hand- EXTERIOR FIXTURES AND GENERAL EQUIPMENT 109 ^p^iis^is^iyy^-^^^**^ ^- H^ ?)^ -.;ii^^^M|g^S^fe^ H^Hh^^GI im H^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I^^^^HtfltSf^^^^^*^ ai ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K^ B ^^^^B 1 ^H^^fewrii - - - -S ^H H^*^^ ^^^ sSs^JllHiil l^p? ^^^^ I^^I^^B ? i^<iM H ^^^^HHK^ vi^i,,-; ^^^^^^ ^^^^v IHBHfeB-feRa^S??? ^Pf-t^,- FIG. 232—SPARROW TI;a1Photo from Rural New Yorker. ling feed, litter, droppings, etc., in this way saves a greatdeal of hard labor. For this reason all doors and gatesshould be so planned as to make the use of a ^v-heel-bar
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