you can cover the pots with circular pieces of pasteboard or tin, and avoid surface evaporation from the pots. Always fill pots with warm water.

CATCHING OWLS AND HAWKS

A friend of ours captured a large owl and fastened him securely with a small chain to a stake in the middle of an open field. He set three posts 5 feet tall and 4 to 5 inches in diameter 20 to 30 yards from the owl, and on each post placed a small steel trap with a bunch of hay or grass tied to the post just under the trap, to hide it, as shown in cut. At night, the owl called. Others came, and seeing nothing near, alighted in the trap on the post. During the day hawks came, and were caught in the same way. In two months two owls and 17 hawks were caught. In some places a bounty is paid, so there is a profit in two ways. The owl may be fed on the hawks caught and on rabbits or chickens that may die around the premises.

TRAP ON POST

The most difficult part of this scheme is often the capture of the first owl, but if you are a good hunter you will find a way.

Make no absolute promises, for nobody will help you to perform them.

Money is a good servant, but a bad master.

MOVING A LARGE TREE

To move a large tree one may find it very satisfactory to use a rig similar to that shown in the picture. Make a three-sided standard of 2 x 4-inch stuff. Loosen the dirt around the roots of the tree

and wrap the tree firmly at the base with old carpet or burlap to prevent injury. Place the standard firmly in the ground and tie the crosspiece to the body of the tree with strong rope to each side of the standard and hitch a horse to the

other end. With a slow pull the tree can be drawn onto the drag and then hauled to the new location. It can be placed in the ground again by using the standard in the same way it was used to load it upon the drag.

A penny saved is two pence clear,

A pin a day's a groat a year.-Benjamin Franklin. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.-Young.

TRANSPLANTING TREES

Here is a way to transplant large trees that is not so difficult as such transplanting is by many supposed to be. The

first move to make is to dig all round the tree, leaving a large ball of soil, which is carefully wrapped in sacking or canvas to hold it on the roots and prevent drying. When this is well tied in place a chain is passed round the ball two or three times and hooked, as shown in Figure 1.

Then with a pair

FIGURE I-BALLED

of heavy wheels on a short axle and a strong pole laid across it, with a massive iron hook fastened to the pole, it is easy

FIGURE 2-HOOK AND TRUCK

to back up to the
tree. The sketch,
Figure 2, shows the
truck with its lever
raised ready to
hook into the
chain.
The rope
at the end of the
pole brings it down
and the tree up,
when the pole is
fastened under a
second pair of
wheels. The young
trunk must be
kept from contact
with the machinery
by the free use of
blankets and bags.
The secret of suc-

cess in transplanting trees is to injure the roots as little as possible.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.-Emerson.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Samuel Johnson.

HOMEMADE FRUIT PICKER

This is a device that is hard to

beat for reach

ing fruit at the top of tall trees. After a little

practice, a man can operate it rapidly, far outstripping hand pickers and at the same time not

needed. When the muslin sack is attached, as shown in the picture of the picker in use, the jaws of the picker are easily closed by pulling slightly on the cloth. The fruit falls through the sack or long cloth tube into the hand of the operator. Many