'Sticks' in the Bible

And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.

But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.