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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 February 1925, Page 12

DRV' MASH HOPPER. When feeding dry mash to poultry, much of it is waisted unless a contrivance exists to prevent the birds from scratching and scattering the ingredients. The hopper illustrated will be found effective and may easily be made.

It will be noticed that the dry; mash is placed in the top reeep'»ible, and as the birds cat the food at the bottom the supply is gradually replenished by gravitation. The self-feeding hopper may be any size. To hold about a bushel, the dimensions are 20 inches high and 12 wide. FOR SOARING BIRDS. An F.lTective Device. For keeping birds off plots in the home garden, where the seeds of vegetables and flowers have been sown, the contrivance designed bv n South Australian grower has given good results.

J V **- 6'" Len T SavvCufe \q‘P, fei/er ¥T /« «w>. PJdce'^ 1 Grounded 7/>e 7Zy>f//e~s round as we// as/Tie Prof>e//er by'force of vv/nd Details Indicated. Obtain two pieces of wood, as the illustration shows, one 2ft. 6in. long by half an inch square, the other Ift. 6in. long by half an inch square; then get an empty sweetmeat box, and cut the lid lengthways equally in two pieces, which can be bent in the shape of a propeller with steam from a kettle of boiling water. Utilise the bottom of the box to make a wind catcher, to be fixed by ineans of a slot sawn at one end of the 18in. piece of wood. The propeller fixes at the other end of the 18in. piece of wood. Pierce a hole in the middle of the 181 ft. piece. Fix I£»with a lin. French nail, and the scarer is complete.

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