. Bird lore . a minimum of working drawing is here given of the Cornellimproved bird-house for birds up to the size ofBluebirds. These can be made in niunbers fora maximum cost of lo cents each, and havethe advantage of being as easily made by girlsas b) boys. The only tools that are necessaryare a pair of heavy scissors or a knife for cut-ting the paper, an awl for punching holes forthe rivets, a tack-hammer and a piece of ironpipe or a window-weight against which toflatten the rivets. The split rivets used to fastenthe edges together can be purchased at anyhardware store. If a grea
. Bird lore . a minimum of working drawing is here given of the Cornellimproved bird-house for birds up to the size ofBluebirds. These can be made in niunbers fora maximum cost of lo cents each, and havethe advantage of being as easily made by girlsas b) boys. The only tools that are necessaryare a pair of heavy scissors or a knife for cut-ting the paper, an awl for punching holes forthe rivets, a tack-hammer and a piece of ironpipe or a window-weight against which toflatten the rivets. The split rivets used to fastenthe edges together can be purchased at anyhardware store. If a great many boxes are tobe built, it is wise to have a short piece of i^inch pipe sharpened to serve as a punch forcutting the hole, but otherwise this can be donewith the knife. The blocks of wood, 4 inchesin diameter, can be cut from a log of that size or the Cornell improvedmade in numbers in the manual trainmg depart- l^^^:^2^^l f^^ cost° otment or the local carpenter shop on the jig-saw. about tln cents each. Bird - Lore mr. The first exercise in the school-room should be to draw the pattern, cut itout, and pin it together. The best pattern should then be taken to mark theroofing paper. In putting together the patterns, one soon learns the Oxder in which the various steps should betaken. Thus the perch and theroof must be fastened to the pieceforming the sides before it is fast-ened into cylinder form. Thecircular piece cut out for the doormay well be used to reinforce thefront on the inside where the perchis nailed in place. The very laststep is the nailing of the completedhouse to its bottom, and this shouldnot be done until the bottom isfastened by screws or face plateto the top of the post or pipewhere the bird-house is to be per-manently placed. It will be seenfrom this that this house is in-tended only for use on top of apost, and the reason for this willbe stated later on.
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