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work and tramp out- 

 doors. Of the disadvan- 

 tages, the only one worth 

 considering is that due 

 to animal depredations. 



The method of at- 

 taching the suet, how- 

 ever, solves any difficulty 

 that may arise from that 

 source. Most often the 

 chunk is tied on. This 

 works fairly well if a 

 great deal of string is 

 used, and if the string is 

 soft or supple, and yet 

 strong and heavy — a 

 combination difiicult to 

 find. Sooner or later, 

 though, a red squirrel 

 will become a httle wiser, 

 bite off the string, and 

 carry off the whole 

 chunk. It may be all 

 right to feed a squirrel 

 when food is scarce, but 

 not in such a wholesale 

 way. A newer scheme is 

 to tack up small-meshed 

 wire netting in the shape 

 of a pocket and cram it 

 full of suet. It is from 

 this device that all the 

 fancy suet holders, suet 

 baskets, and the like, 

 have been derived. There 

 is, however, a great ob- 

 jection to this method, 

 it is unattractive to both 

 man and bird. Photog- 

 raphing birds at such an 

 artificial and blatant 

 object makes an unattrac- 

 tive picture at best. 



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