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Show Decoy Duck Quacks and Swims. When Amos C. Vaughan of Anadar-ko, Anadar-ko, Okla., goes duck shooting he takes with him a set of his mechanical decoys de-coys and places them in the water in front of his blind. Before doing so, however, he winds them up, notes Popular Pop-ular Science Monthly. When a flock of wild ducks appears his decoys begin to swim about and quack as if they were alive. The result is that the inventor in-ventor goes home with a full bag, for no wild duck can resist the mechanical wiles of his decoy. The decoy is composed of two parts, bottom and top, which can be opened for cleaning and repairing. A clockwork clock-work mechanism drives the propeller and also the sound record of the phonograph. pho-nograph. As the mechanism is set in action the stylus, or needle, as well as the propeller is operated. A cylinder or disk Is used for the record. A controlling con-trolling cam renders the nuedle Inoperative Inop-erative at certain intervals, bo that the calls or cries are sounded Intermittently. Intermittent-ly. Who makes the phonographic record rec-ord of the quack that leads the duck to its doom? We are baffled. |
