. Bird lore . d be avoided, ifyou wish to deprive yourneighbors cats of an occa-sional feast on Martin tools necessary for con-structing this box are ordi-nary carpenters savy andhammer, a brace and ^-inch bit for starting theopenings to the rooms, anda compass-saw for enlargingand squaring the same. For constructing more elaborate bird-houses,other wood-working tools will be needed and a work-bench with a strongvise is desirable. Two designs are selected from photographs of bird-houses I have built, and the floor and roof plansare given to aid those whowish to build elaboratehouses.
. Bird lore . d be avoided, ifyou wish to deprive yourneighbors cats of an occa-sional feast on Martin tools necessary for con-structing this box are ordi-nary carpenters savy andhammer, a brace and ^-inch bit for starting theopenings to the rooms, anda compass-saw for enlargingand squaring the same. For constructing more elaborate bird-houses,other wood-working tools will be needed and a work-bench with a strongvise is desirable. Two designs are selected from photographs of bird-houses I have built, and the floor and roof plansare given to aid those whowish to build elaboratehouses. To go into detailand describe these planswould take up much valu-able space, and be so tediousto follow that many personswould become confused anddiscouraged at the begin-ning; therefore, I give a briefdescription here, and addfigures, measurements andexplanations to the plans asa further help. The principal points areto get the rooms a suitablesize, and the openings rightlyplaced and of the MARTIN HOUSE NO. 2 u Bird-Lore Fig. I is a four-gabled structure of twenty rooms : the height frombottom board to cornice is i6 inches, and the width of each front is 14inches ; the little gable pieces, in which the round openings are cut, are 8
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