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hinged on with leather and fastened down with 

 a leather strip in which a slit is cut fitting over a 

 small staple driven in the box. The lid is sawed 

 out, leaving about three quarters of an inch around 

 its outside edge. Into this edge all around, about 

 a half-inch apart, are driven brads an inch long. 

 On these brads from side to opposite side, first 

 across the length and then across the width, cord 

 is stretched. The common cord of the grocer will 

 do, but stronger will last longer. The birds sit 

 anywhere on the box and eat through the inter- 

 stices made by the cross-cords. A new bird is 

 a little shy in its first visits, but after that shows 

 no hesitancy in eating all it wants. The box is 

 nailed to a six-inch-wide board, and that to a stout 

 strip spiked to the trunk of a tree, near a limb, 

 so that the birds may have a place to wait while 

 another visitor is satisfying its hunger. 



" I leave suet in the box all the summer. The 

 Baltimore oriole likes it greatly and likes to swing 

 on a bit if it gets loose on a string. The birds 

 come to eat it while nesting, even the robin, 

 and sometimes bring their young to feed them on 

 it, stuffing a morsel down the throat of their fluffy 

 offspring." 



Moving Shelf. — On the whole the most satis- 

 factory plan which the author has tried is a shelf 



