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dressed lumber and will cost less if it can be had. Boards 

 six inches wide are the easiest to handle. It takes three up- 

 right partitions lor the first row of double nests and two up- 

 right partitions for each additional row of double nests. Each 

 alternate upright partition must be 18 inches and 12 inches 

 wide respectively. The upright partition must be cleated on 

 both sides with five one inch cleats, 11 inches apart with the 

 exception of the two partitions on either end which should only 

 be cleated on one side. Cleats can be secured from most any 

 modern lumber yard where they have an electric saw. They 

 can be ripped out of % ii^ch lumber % inch wide which is just 

 as good as one inch square. One half of these cleats should be 

 18 inches long and the other half 12 inches long to correspond 

 with the width of the upright partitions. 



Cleats can be nailed on quickly by nailing two cleats on at 

 the same time, that is by nailing clear through a cleat and the 

 partition into the cleat opposite on the other side of the parti- 

 tion. The best way to do this is to make a pattern rack or device 

 to hold the cleats in their proper place which will save measur- 

 ing each time and enable one to make partitions exactly of the 

 same measurement and much faster than they can be made 

 without a pattern rack. Even if one is going to make only 

 enough nest partitions for a single nest room it will pay to make 

 a pattern rack as such a method will save over one half the time 

 required to make even single nests by common every day pro- 

 cess. 



How to Make Pattern Rack 



Saw off enough pieces, two inches thick lumber, 45 inches 

 long to make a table 18 inches wide, (naturally the number of 

 pieces will depend upon the width of your 2 inch thick lumber). 

 Along one side and across both ends of this table, nail a 1x6 

 inch piece, edge up, allowing all but 2 inches of this board to 

 extend above the surface of the table. Mark off the rack or table 

 into four equal parts which will make each space 11 inches 

 wide, extending the marks all the way up the back board. Lay 

 an inch square cleat loose on the table against each of the ends 

 and another inch cleat against these two cleats. Nail the two 

 latter cleats to the table, and remove the first two loose cleats 

 laid down which were only for quick measure. Then place 



