. The American fruit culturist. 111 Fig. 185.—Zinc Tag. Fig. 186.—Zinc Tag. near the wide end, with any sharp steel instrument, as anawl, or end of a file ground sharp, bearing on hard enough togo through the tin coating, so as to reach the iron. In a fewmonths the rain, by penetrating to the iron, will rust it, andmake the name quite conspicuous. The label is then at-tached to the tree by bending the narrow end once about aside-limb (Fig. 186). As the tree grows this coil will expand,and not cut the bark. On this account thin tin plate is betterthan thick. The coil should pass around but once
. The American fruit culturist. 111 Fig. 185.—Zinc Tag. Fig. 186.—Zinc Tag. near the wide end, with any sharp steel instrument, as anawl, or end of a file ground sharp, bearing on hard enough togo through the tin coating, so as to reach the iron. In a fewmonths the rain, by penetrating to the iron, will rust it, andmake the name quite conspicuous. The label is then at-tached to the tree by bending the narrow end once about aside-limb (Fig. 186). As the tree grows this coil will expand,and not cut the bark. On this account thin tin plate is betterthan thick. The coil should pass around but once, or it willnot give way freely to the increase of growth. Any tin-worker will cut them of scrap or refuse plate forabout ten or fifteen cents per hundred. Lead labels, in the form of those represented in Fig. 187,stamped with type, and suspended with copper wire, welltwisted against the hole, to prevent wearing by the motion ofthe wind, are very durable. Fig. 187 shows the mode ofStamping, by sliding the sheet-lead between
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