120 IMPLEMENTS USED BY FRUIT CULTIVATOR^ 



or slender end round the twig, bring it through a hole 

 punched midway between the ends, and clinch or twist it 

 with the fingers or a small pair of pincers (Fig. 185). These 

 labels may be cut and punched by a tinman at a cheap rate. 

 A good, durable, and cheap label is 

 made of sheet tin. Cut the tin in 

 strips about six inches long, somewhat 

 in the form of a wedge, about a fourth 

 of an inch wide at one end and three- 

 fourths at the other. Write the name 



FIG. 185. Zinc Tag. 



FIG. 186. Zinc Tag. 



near the wide end, with any sharp steel instrument, as an 

 awl, or end of a file ground sharp, bearing on hard enough to 

 go through the tin coating, so as to reach the iron. In a few 

 months the rain, by penetrating to the iron, will rust it, and 

 make the name quite conspicuous. The label is then at- 

 tached to the tree by bending the narrow end once about a 

 side-limb (Fig. 186). As the tree grows this coil will expand, 

 and not cut the bark. On this account thin tin plate is better 

 than thick. The coil should pass around but once, or it will 

 not give way freely to the increase of growth. 



Any tin-worker will cut them of scrap or refuse plate for 

 about ten or fifteen cents per hundred. 



Lead labels, in the form of those represented in Fig. 187, 

 stamped with type, and suspended with copper wire, well 

 twisted against the hole, to prevent wearing by the motion of 

 the wind, are very durable. Fig. 187 shows the mode of 

 stamping, by sliding the sheet-lead between two plates of iron, 

 A, B, screwed together, and setting the types successively 

 against the upper plate, A, and stamping one at a time. The 



