Fhoto by Earnest Harold Baynes 



THE FOOD BELL 



"Baron von Berlepsch has invented a food bell that supplies grain, etc., automatically 

 from a receptacle above, and which may be suspended from a tree or piazza roof or any 

 other place that seems best" (see page 332). 



Sunflowers may be planted in groups 

 about the flower garden or in lines among 

 the rows of vegetables ; wild sarsaparilla 

 and pokeberry along the boundary walls ; 

 while if you have a corner somewhere in 

 the fields that can be planted with buck- 

 wheat and Japanese millet, it will prove 

 a great attraction, particularly in winter. 



FOOD-HOUSES AND SHELTERS 



In bad weather, however, particularly 

 in the North, where we are so apt to be 

 covered up with snow, more artificial 

 means of feeding should be resorted to, 

 and food stations, food-houses, and food 

 shelters of various sorts should be estab- 

 lished in proper places. If quail or grouse 



are to be fed, inconspicuous bough shel- 

 ters may be built in protected places 

 among the fields or woods most fre- 

 quented by them, while about the house 

 or among the neighboring plantations all 

 sorts of devices may be resorted to. 



Baron von Berlepsch, in Germany, has 

 invented a food-house, an adaptation of 

 which, called the Audubon food-house, 

 has been much used on this side of the 

 water, and is most satisfactory (see page 

 327). It consists of a square hip roof, 

 with vertical glass sides suspended be- 

 neath and open at the bottom, the whole 

 supported on a central rustic cedar post, 

 encircled with food trays beneath the 

 roof. The glass sides protect the food 



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