Popular science monthly . CARBURETOR CARBURUOR I PlPL 5UPPLY PIPt Sectional view of automobile. An arrangement whereby the vacuum created by the motoron its intake strokes causes a flow of gasoline to the motor, thus eliminating the feedingtrouble usually encountered on steep up-grades with the gravity or prcwure systems 508 Decoy Ducks that Quack and Swim. The ducks are composed of two separableparts which enclose a phonographic con-trivance which emits a natural-soundingquack, or call, at predetermined intervals WHEN Amos C. Vaughan of Ana-darko,Oklahoma, goesduckshoot-ing he takes with him
Popular science monthly . CARBURETOR CARBURUOR I PlPL 5UPPLY PIPt Sectional view of automobile. An arrangement whereby the vacuum created by the motoron its intake strokes causes a flow of gasoline to the motor, thus eliminating the feedingtrouble usually encountered on steep up-grades with the gravity or prcwure systems 508 Decoy Ducks that Quack and Swim. The ducks are composed of two separableparts which enclose a phonographic con-trivance which emits a natural-soundingquack, or call, at predetermined intervals WHEN Amos C. Vaughan of Ana-darko,Oklahoma, goesduckshoot-ing he takes with him a sot of hismechanical decoys and places them inthe water in front of his blind. Beforedoing so, howe\er, he winds them a flock of wild ducks appears hisdecoys begin to swim about and quackas if they were alive. The result is thatthe inventor goes home with a full bag,for no wild duck can resist the mechani-cal wiles of his decoy. His duck is provided with a phono-graphic means for automatically givingat predetermined inter\als a call or cr> swims about in the water with the aidof the propeller and an adjustablerudder, either in circles or in anydirection the hunter washes. The decoy is composed of two parts,bottom and top, which can be openedfor cleaning and repairing. A clock- work mechanism dri\es the propellerand also the sound-re
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