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��more papers about it |is solidly as possible. Whatever packing material is used, it should come to the top of the container for the kettle, and the box should lack about 4 in. of being full. A cushion or pad must be provided to fit completely the space be-

���The cover with a deep rim and the con- tainer for the cooking vessel within the box

tween the top of the packing and the cover of the box after the kettles are put in place. This should be made of heavy goods, such as denim and stuffed with cotton, crumpled paper or excelsior. Hay may be used, but it is somewhat odorous.

The classes of food best adapted to the cooker are cereals, soups, meats, vege- tables, dried fruits, steamed breads and puddings. When different foods are cooked together in the fireless cooker they must be such as to require the same amount of cooking, since the cooker can- not be opened to take the food out without allowing a large amount of heat to escape. It would not do to put foods which need about IJ^ hours to cook in a cooker with, say, a piece of meat that requires several hours' cooking.

��A Driver for Holding a Screw While Turning It

TAKE a round piece of wood, some- thing like a lead pencil, of the re- quired length, run a fine saw lengthwise through the end of it; then take a discarded clock spring, cut two pieces of equal lengths and insert them in the saw with the curves out. Wind it se- curely, pinch the ends together, insert them in the slot of a screw and you can hold it at any angle. If a watch spring is used and the ends made keen enough the device can be used to drive very small screws. — E. L. Griffith.

��Spring on end of stick to start screws

��Extension Holder for Hauling Long Stock on Express Wagon

THE holder is made of two bars, each 9 ft. long and % in. in diameter. They are bent at right angles on one end to make an upright 16 in. high. These pieces are joined together with another piece of the same stock welded in as at B. The length of this piece will be regulated by the width of the express wagon box on the inside.

The bars are held in place inside of the wagon box with four pieces of metal shaped as shown at C and made from stock 1 in. wide and ]^l in. thick. These are bolted to the upper surface of the bottom of the wagon box.

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���Extension rods on a wagon box to hold the pipe ends and keep them from lashing about

The upper ends of these rods are thread- ed for almost their entire length and fitted loosely with two nuts. A crossbar, D, made of stock 2 in. wide and % in. thick is drilled to fit on the rod ends be- tween the nuts, A.

In hauling long rods, pipe or lumber the holder is slipped in place in the clips, C, and the material loaded on it. The cross- bar, D, is then put on and the nuts ad- justed to hold the load. This prevents the long ends of the material extending from the rear' of the box from lashing about and makes it possible for the load to be placed against the front end of the wagon box, where it will not extend over and strike the horse. This device is very serviceable.- James E. Noble.

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