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BIRD-FEEDING DEVICE MADE AND OPERATED BY J. P. POLAND, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 



A FEEDING-DEVICE 



Mr. J. P. Poland, of Springfield, Mass., 

 writes that he has had very great success 

 with the specially constructed feeding- 

 device for birds which he has now had in 

 operation for over a year. He says that it 

 is built around a chestnut log 8 inches in 

 diameter, and i8 inches long. A hole goes 

 through the log lengthwise, large enough 

 for a ^-inch eye-bolt, the eye upon the 

 upper or roof end and a nut and washer 

 upon the lower end. A long hook passes 

 through the eye on the roof and hooks into 

 a wire ring which encircles the limb of a 



large white ash tree above. There are 

 twenty-eight holes in the log, 1^4 inches in 

 diameter by i>^ inches deep, into which 

 melted suet has been poured. Upon the 

 floor of the booth various kinds of seed 

 and grain are scattered. The booth is 36 

 inches long, 36 inches wide, 16 inches high 

 at the eaves, and 22 inches at the peak. 

 The two sides and one end are covered with 

 a double thickness of burlap. The front 

 is left open and can be slatted to keep out 

 Crows. 



