. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. SELF-FEEDER FOR GRAIN. This trough gives excellent satisfaction with us. We do not sell it, but will tell you how to have it made. It is tour feet long. At the bottom of this page you will see a sectional view of it. The grain is put into the hopper, H. It drops m the direction indicated by the arrows into the spaces, AA, where it is eaten by the birds. As fast as they eat, more drops down. The strip through which they stick their heads is three mches wide and the slots are cut one and one-half inches wide. The V at the bottom of the trough is made
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. SELF-FEEDER FOR GRAIN. This trough gives excellent satisfaction with us. We do not sell it, but will tell you how to have it made. It is tour feet long. At the bottom of this page you will see a sectional view of it. The grain is put into the hopper, H. It drops m the direction indicated by the arrows into the spaces, AA, where it is eaten by the birds. As fast as they eat, more drops down. The strip through which they stick their heads is three mches wide and the slots are cut one and one-half inches wide. The V at the bottom of the trough is made from a solid piece of four by four. It is solid so that rats cannot get inside of it and hide and pilfer the grain. The inch-square pieces at the front of the bottom prevent the birds from pecking the grain out upon the floor. One-inch lumber is used in the construction tor every Eart except the slot-boards, BB, which are three-eighths inch thick. The top and ottom are of twelve-inch boards, the sides of ten-inch boards. The top is held in place by a hook and eye at each end as pictured. The trough will hold from three days' to two weeks' supply of grain, depending on the size of the flock. Put the trough not in the flying pen, but inside the squab house. Or, you may build a half-trough (slot-board down one side only) and set it in the passageway, and it will fill the space between the lower tier of nest boxes and the floor. Here it may. be filled from the passageway, and you wiU not have to enter the unit pen. We have tried all kinds of self-feeders and recoi^mend this pattern as the best of all. If you adopt it in connection with the dowel system (illustrated on previous page) your dowels will be used only behind the drinker, this trough taking up four feet of the rest of the space. Make it either longer or shorter than four feet, to suit the size of your flock, if you Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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