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hatches, downy woodpeckers, and juncos are 

 among the birds he has had visit him. Some 

 of them go right inside the nut after they have 

 eaten all the food which can be reached without 

 doing so. 



The Food Trolley 



The food trolley is simply a food tray or lunch 

 counter provided with grooved wheels by means 

 of which it can be made to glide along beneath 

 a wire or wires stretched between some point in 

 the garden and a higher point, — say an upper 

 window, at the house. Mr. Gilbert H. Trafton 

 describes a moving food tray of this kind which 

 he suspended from a single wire by means of two 

 pulley wheels set in a frame. This he found, on 

 the whole, the most satisfactory device he has 

 tried. 



The author's food trolley, which has been on 

 duty in his garden for several years, embodies the 

 same general idea. It consists of a food tray 

 about eighteen inches square, slung below two 

 wires eighteen inches apart, stretched taut at 

 the same height between a second-story bed- 

 room window sill and a wooden bar nailed to a 

 branch of an apple tree at a point eight feet above 

 the ground and about a hundred feet from the 

 house. Four pulley wheels are used, one on each 



