. Department circular. Agriculture. Log Nesting Box. Ernest Thompson Seton recommends the following plan: — A nesting box may be made of a stick of wood or a section of a small log by first splitting off four slabs with an axe and then nailing in at each end a section sawed from the core that is left after the slabs are split off. A hole may be bored for an entrance for the birds. (See diagram. Fig. 3.) This box may be quickly made of wdiite pine, chestnut or cedar. A sec-. Fia. 3. — Seton box. tion without knots should be chosen. Bark Nesting Boxes. Neat boxes may be made of slabs with the ba
. Department circular. Agriculture. Log Nesting Box. Ernest Thompson Seton recommends the following plan: — A nesting box may be made of a stick of wood or a section of a small log by first splitting off four slabs with an axe and then nailing in at each end a section sawed from the core that is left after the slabs are split off. A hole may be bored for an entrance for the birds. (See diagram. Fig. 3.) This box may be quickly made of wdiite pine, chestnut or cedar. A sec-. Fia. 3. — Seton box. tion without knots should be chosen. Bark Nesting Boxes. Neat boxes may be made of slabs with the bark on (Fig. 4), or a rough box may be covered with bark in place of paint, but all bark left on bird houses should be firmly nailed on, as other- wise it will come of? sooner or later. In "Bird-Lore" for. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts. Dept. of Agriculture. Boston, Mass.
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