Elmer decides to go into the chicken raising business. Foghorn tricks him into feeding him for a month, promising he'd lay a ruby egg. Two crooks swipe a ruby from a museum and toss it in Elmer's coop while fleeing the cops. Elmer thinks Foghorn laid the ruby and takes it. That night the two crooks return to the coop and shake down Foghorn looking for the ruby.; Elmer and Yosemite Sam are out fishing when they notice all the fish are following one boat. The pair follow the boat to an island where they learn that gathering the fish was just a test of an inventor's hypnotic ray whose frequency can be changed to control higher forms of life, like people.; Daffy has a fake newspaper printed in order to get Elmer to feed him for the winter.; Elmer is trying to observe a new satellite with his telescope but Daffy keeps interrupting him.; Daffy panics when Elmer goes on a liquid diet to lose weight. He tries to trick Elmer into thinking he's lost weight so he'll restock the refrigerator with regular food again.; Bugs takes advantage of Elmer's street washing machine to water his carrot patch.; While painting the face of clock atop a high building, Elmer is startled by its chime at the hour.; Baffled by instructions for assembling a deck chair, Elmer pays a young boy to assemble it for him.; Elmer gets his shoe tangled with the train of old shoes and tin cans tied to the bumper of a just-married couple's car.