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through this into the tree. Thus adjusted it will be 

 secure against almost any wind. 



Cheese boxes have not served their full duty when 

 used exclusively for nests, for they make excellent 

 feeding stations for the winter birds. For this pur- 

 pose I like two lids, separated by three pieces of 

 curtain pole about ten inches long, the upper, of 

 course, turned downward and the lower up. They 

 should be nailed to the top of a post at a convenient 

 place for filling and will be found well patronized 

 by the birds. Grain, bread crumbs, weed seeds, — 

 any food suitable for small birds, — ^may be used to 

 attract them. For the larger birds, like jays, rose 

 breasted grossbeaks and cardinals, the spiked feeding 

 stations are desirable. These may be simply a block 

 of wood with a spike driven through it nailed to a 

 convenient post or tree and an ear of corn impaled on 

 the spike. A chunk of bread or of suet will attract 

 any of the woodpecker family. Such a station in view 

 of my dining room window has for several summers 

 been full of interest from the regular visits of a pair 

 of red-headed woodpeckers which feed and carry por- 

 tions of food to their nest in a tree across the street 

 and as soon as the young are large enough to fly 

 bring them to feed also. A piece of wood a foot or 

 fifteen inches long and about nine inches wide is 

 pointed at each end and two pieces of board about 

 eight inches long and five wide are nailed to the 



