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in trouble at once. Next time I found it very- 

 much easier to grind the fresh raw beef very fine 

 in a meat grinder, and then spread it out thin and 

 dry it in a slow oven. When dried in this way 

 it may be readily crumbled and mixed with the 

 other ingredients. Probably every woman knows 

 this, but the hint may be useful to men and 

 children. 



Another way to use up a small quantity of 

 the mixture is to pour it over a single detached 

 branch of an evergreen and then fasten that 

 branch to any tree in the garden. 



A style of food tree very popular with children 

 is one on which the food is hung as presents are 

 hung on a Christmas tree. In fact it is some- 

 times called a "Birds' Christmas Tree." This 

 may be either a freshly cut tree stuck in the 

 ground or almost any growing tree in the garden. 

 To the branches may be hung net bags filled with 

 nuts or suet, little chunks of bacon, doughnuts, 

 and similar dainties, or cocoanuts, each with a 

 good-sized hole in the side and stuffed with 

 Berlepsch bird food, suet, or any other food that 

 packs well. The stuffed cocoanut was suggested 

 to me by Dr. A. K. Fisher, who fills the cavity 

 with fresh pork fat and black walnut kernels, 

 and fastens the nut in a tree at his camp near 

 Washington. Chickadees, tufted titmice, nut- 



