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Show WATER SUPPLY FOR POULTRY Automatic Device Is Shown In Illustration Illus-tration Herewith Plan May Bo Used for Other Purposes. The sketch shows my automatic wa terer for poultry. A jug, large bottle, or any vessel that may be made airtight air-tight will serve the purpose. If a tree is not handy drive a post where you want your fountain. Two straps will hold the jug or bottle in place, and. should be put on in a way that will make it easy to take out the vessel and refill. Fill the vessel and invert it over the pan, having the mouth a little below the level or the pan's upper up-per edge. The water will fill up the pan until it shuts off the air from the mouth of the jug and then stops. So long as there is water in the jug the I . Automatic Waterep. water will keep at this level, but will cot overflow, writes Bert Ray of Caither, Okla., in the Farmres' Mail and Breeze. . The fowls cannot get Into the pan with their feet and old and young Birds will have a clean supply sup-ply of drinking water at all times. The same plan may be used in watering wa-tering hogs, except that a barrel is used instead. This is set on a small scaffold and a hose takes the water from the bottom of the barrel to the trough in the pen. The end of the hose in the trough must be protected. |