Show electric fowl picker A machine invented by 0 G of 0 buffalo picks an ordinary fowl naked in less than five minutes says electrical experimenter moreover no feathers are scattered A small electric motor turns a suction fan fall and also a roller contained within the instrument ment luent itself the power being transmitted by means of flexible cable the roller Is hollow and its outer surface Is pierced by a number of slits silts which permit the incoming blast produced by the fan fall to pass freely through it the top of the instrument Is hooded and attached to this hood Is a little rubber robber roller which rests firmly against the surface of the large wheel the feathers of the fowl fono sucked up against the two rollers are plu plucked c ked by having to q squeeze queene between alic th e rollers after which they are arc blown to ii a tank lank A thumb contact permits the hood to be amov moved ed around in its axis and thus the relative positions of the two rollers are arc adjusted t according to the needs coda of each case the smallest wild fowl or the biggest tm turkey may be plucked with equal ease case afoul A fowl can readily be picked in the he dry state but ordinarily tt it is scalded scald rd pd |