The Hawk Trap
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TRAPS FOR FEATHERED GAME.
Our illustration represents a hawk in a sad plight. The memory of
a recent feast has attracted it to the scene of many of
its depredations: but the ingenious farmer has at last outwitted
his feathered foe and brought its sanguinary exploits to a timely
end. This trap is a Yankee invention and has been used with great
success in many instances where the hawk has become a scourge to the
poultry yard. The contrivance is clearly shown in an illustration,
consisting merely of a piece of plank two feet square, set with
stiff perpendicular pointed wires.
This affair was set on the ground in a conspicuous place, the board
covered with grass, and the nice fat Poland hen which was tied to
the centre proved a morsel too tempting for the hawk to resist.
Hence the fell swoop and the fatal consequences depicted in our
illustration. The owl has also been successfully captured by the
same device.
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