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Popular Science Monthly 



The kit preserves the shape of cigars, holds pipes up- 

 right and provides a space for the storage of tobacco 



Why Young Pheasants Re- 

 quire Foster-Mothers 



IN pheasant-raising the great- 

 est difficulty is to secure 

 "setters." Says L. S. Crandall 

 in Pets, (Henry Holt & Co., New 

 York), "If the female (pheasant) 

 will incubate, she can not be 

 excelled for rearing the young, 

 but in most cases she refuses to 

 perform this function. It is 

 customary, therefore, to remove 

 the eggs and place them under a 

 domestic hen. For this purpose 

 a small bird should be chosen, 

 preferably a Silkie, or a gentle 

 little Bantam. 



This Smoker's Kit Is Approved by 

 the Neat Housekeeper 



SMOKING makes a contented man, 

 it is said. On the other hand, 

 smoking, if the pleasure be derived from 

 pipes, is likely to make a very discon- 

 tented housekeeper. For pipes have a 

 careless way of spilling their ashy contents 

 on tables if they are thoughtlessly 

 placed on them. Joseph F. Jeckert, 

 of Garfield, New Jersey, is therefore 

 to be commended for his smoker's 

 kit. It not only keeps pipe ashes where 

 they belong, but there are compartments 

 for cigars, to* 

 bacco and 

 matches in the 

 same kit. 



The kit may 

 be hung on a 

 wall or placed on 

 a table as it ap- 

 pears in the 

 photograph. The 

 pipes are held in 

 an upright posi- 

 tion and if there 

 are loose ashes 

 they will fall out 

 into the tray. 

 Furthermore, the 

 nicotin and other 

 juices will run 

 down the stems 

 and into the 

 bowls. A cor- 

 rugated panel 

 furnishes the up- 

 right channels 

 to hold the pipes. 



A Novel Machine for Reclaiming 

 Scrap Materials 



HERE is a machine which is interest- 

 ing because of the many uses to 

 which it can be put. It can be applied to 

 general manufacturing and repair shop 

 work where bent sheets and structural 

 members have to be straightened or 

 where it is desired to form new material 

 to particular shapes. It is a press par- 

 ticularly adapted to the straightening of 

 bent railway truck-frames, center and 

 side sills, side sheets, channels and truss 

 rods. It is also used for the forming of 

 new hopper sheets , 

 as shown in the il- 

 lustration, and 

 the bending of 

 guard rails and 

 other work re- 

 quired by way de- 

 partments of rail- 

 roads. 



The base of the 

 press is a heavy 

 flat steel casting, 

 to which two up- 

 rights are at- 

 tached, which sup- 

 port a main cross- 

 frame. Two 

 channel 

 sections 

 | placed back 



" to back, 



constitute 

 this cross- 

 frame and 

 serve as a 

 track. 



The pressure cylinder is suspended from a four- 

 wheel carriage propelled by an endless chain 



