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stove a fireless cooker is very essential 

 and will lessen the fuel bills. Vacuum 

 cleaners are becoming a necessity in 

 the household instead of a luxury. 

 They not only take up the dirt but it is 

 entirely done away with, and if oper- 

 ated by electricity the weekly cleaning 

 day will not be dreaded by the house- 

 wife. 



Every fruitgrower should sec that his 

 wife is provided with a power washing 

 machine. In this way lessen the horrors 

 of wash day, changing "blue Monday" 

 into "sunny Monday." There are many 

 ditferent makes that can be operated by 

 ditferent kinds of power, — hand power, 

 gasoline and electricity. For those who 

 have electricity in their homes an elec- 

 tric washer is the most satisfactory and 

 can be operated for a few cents an 

 hour. An electric iron can be obtained 

 from three to five dollars, which makes 

 ironing much easier and does away 

 with having a fire in the cofik stove in 

 warm weather. 



Attracting Birds 



It is possible with a little care and 

 forethought to attract birds about our 

 dwelling places, adding thereby not 

 only to the cheer, but providing one of 

 the best means of protecting our gar- 

 dens and orchards from the ravages of 

 insects. One of the easiest birds to 

 attract is the Mountain or Arctic Blue- 

 bird, on the east side of the mountains; 

 and the Western Bluebird on the west 

 side. These birds are invited to remain 

 with us not so much by the planting of 

 slow-growing shrubs and vines as by 

 erecting bird houses for them. Even on 

 the treeless prairie this form of invita- 

 tion will usually induce them to remain 

 throughout the nesting season. Natur- 

 ally, they nest in holes in trees or 

 cracks in buildings, sometimes in the 

 most unexpected idaces, states Professor 

 W. T. Shaw, zoologist of the State Ex- 

 periment Station. I once knew of a 

 pair to nest in the tool box of an old 

 abandoned reaper. Consequently, any- 

 thing in the form of a box of the proper 

 dimensions, furnished with a hole of 

 sufficient size to admit the bird, will be 

 used by them. 



A suitable bird house may be made by 

 converting a small box into one. A box 

 six or eight by ten inches is one of 

 about the right dimensions. In one end, 

 about two inches from the floor, a hole 

 should be made, two and one-quarter 

 inches in diameter. This may be cut 

 flat in the bottom and arched. The box 

 may be made still more attractive, not 

 only to the birds, but to the owner of 

 the place as well, by being covered with 

 strips of bark sawed from yellow pine 

 or fir. The door might be furnished 

 with a little step of sound bark. 



The box should be placed at least ten 

 or twelve feet from the ground. It is 

 well to locate it near a building, as 

 under an eave. It may be made to fur- 

 nish endless enjoyment for the cliilih'cn 

 by placing it close to an upstairs win- 

 dow.— Bulletin 138, Washington Slate 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



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