THE LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY

Carpentry and Woodwork

By Edwin W. Foster

Electricity and Its Everyday Uses

By John F. Woodhull, Ph.D.

Gardening and Farming

By Ellen Eddy Shaw

Home Decoration

By Charles Franklin Warner, Sc.D.

Housekeeping

By Elizabeth Hale Gilman

Mechanics, Indoors and Out

By Fred T. Hodgson

Needlecraft

By Effie Archer Archer

Outdoor Sports, and Games

By Claude H. Miller, Ph.B.

Outdoor Work

By Mary Rogers Miller

Working in Metals

By Charles Conrad Sleffel

Photograph by Helen W. Cooke.

Harvesting Nature's Crops

The Library of Work and Play

OUTDOOR WORK

BY

MARY ROGERS MILLER

Garden City New York

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1911

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO EIGHT BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO SENT ONE ANOTHER TO COLLEGE