drinking cups; with also a little cotton for nesting, 

 all in position. 



From my friend, FlanigaU, I obtained an idea and 

 also gave one. He said that my field data arrange- 

 ment was the simplest and best he ever saw, and I 

 was pleased to get his rubber ball. Many will remem- 

 ber our old water-blowing device, ten feet of rubber 

 tubing, with an elevated reservoir of water, but " Flani- 

 gan's ball" is ahead of that. Go down to your "toy 

 emporium" and purchase a white "rubber ball for 

 the baby" (or some one else's baby, it doesn't matter 

 which) about the size of a large orange, one of the 

 dull heavy bouncers; burn a small hole, with a heated 

 knitting needle, so as to "cut the lining." Use this 

 in connection with a basin l of water, by first filling, 

 and when not in use set back in the water, so that it 

 will fill automatically. Is it necessary for me to in- 

 struct further, by requesting you to use the squirt as 

 a blowing force and as a cleanser, or will you prefer 

 to play with the tool a little while? 



F. M.'S FIELD PLAN. 



My field system is simple. I sent to my friend, 

 iR. W. Ford, of Bristol, Conn., who, by the way, is 

 also an old-time egg boy, and got a rubber stamp, 

 making this impression, exact size: ■> 



Name *. 



Set Mark t . . Date '. . . 



No. Eggs Incubation 



Location > 



Nest . . . . . 



For a few years I used this on separate slips of 

 paper, but recently have been using a pocket note 

 book, size four by seven inches, opening back from 

 end, much more convenient than a side opener. This 

 note book is a red cover, half morocco, with the re- 

 movable slip" filler." T get "fillers" of fifty sheets 

 or one hundred pages each and of quadruple ruling; 

 using a new "filler" each season, the old one being 

 labelled and filed away. 



With the rubber stamp make two impressions on a 

 page, mix in a few with but one impression to the 

 page, crowding the stamp to the left side, and with 

 your extra space for writing coming below the "nest 

 line," and along the right margin. 



Begin by marking up the "set mark" spaces in 

 your book with ink, from a No. 1 in regular order up 

 to 75 or such a matter. Now! mark the eggs from 

 your first nest, immediately on removal, with the 

 figure 1 and fill up the corresponding blank in the 

 book. All eggs of the next set, with a 2 and continue 

 through the season. Do not run a separate set of 

 numbers on sets of the same variety, thereby having 

 more than one set with a 3 or a seven in your lot, but 

 keep the field number going up on every additional 

 set, regardless of variety. Put nothing on the egg but 

 the one figure. 



After the season is over is the time to clean off the 

 field number, re-marking those which have been pre- 

 pared satisfactorily and which are your substantial 

 results; putting on your "system" marks to connect 

 with the results of previous years' work — 475 20/7 



