. The business hen (the latest hatch). Poultry. HOMEMADE POULTRY DEVICES, 147 the upper side, three inches deep and three wide at one side, and six at the other. Get a piece of light sleigh-shoe steel, about two feet long, and get the smith to draw out one end to put a handle on, punch a hole in the other, and grind, hammer or file to a sharp edge a section of the steel wide enough to reach across the notch in block and about six inches from end, with hole in it. Bolt the knife to block a little lower than bottom of notch. Bevel to knife should be all on one side and away from block. When gras
. The business hen (the latest hatch). Poultry. HOMEMADE POULTRY DEVICES, 147 the upper side, three inches deep and three wide at one side, and six at the other. Get a piece of light sleigh-shoe steel, about two feet long, and get the smith to draw out one end to put a handle on, punch a hole in the other, and grind, hammer or file to a sharp edge a section of the steel wide enough to reach across the notch in block and about six inches from end, with hole in it. Bolt the knife to block a little lower than bottom of notch. Bevel to knife should be all on one side and away from block. When grass gets long enough to cut with knife or grass hook, take some of it, put in notch in block and feed it along with left hand, and with the right hand on knife you can cut it as fine as you please. When the bottom of notch gets worn away, insert a section of stout hoop iron for knife to play down beside, so as to make clean cut Figs. 41-42 show how this is done. When chicks get older and you want to give them weeds or any kind of large leaves, tack some wire netting on a frame and. GRASS CUTTER. FiG. 41. TOP OF BLOCK. Fig. 42. place it on the weeds to hold them down. The fowls can tear off what they want as well as if plants were growing. They are very fond of plantain leaves and clippings from too vigorous Dahlias. When you have surplus sweet corn to give the chickens, drive wire nails, five or six inches long, through a stout board, turn it over and set the ears on these nails, and chicks will clean corn all off without rolling it about in the dirt. o. h. l. New Hampshire. Flour barrels make excellent coops, roomy and cheap. A little frame is made for the front, consisting of four pieces of board, the uprights 6x24 inches, and two crosspieces, top and bot- tom, 2x20 inches. Fasten frame to front of barrel by wire, leaving opening for door. Fix so that a slide door, eight inches wide, can be easily dropped in from the top. This door is made of one-half- inch mesh cellar window w
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