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Attracting Birds

'I‘u attract birds to our yard, I placed a low tree stump in the garden and kept a large ﬂower-pot sntll'cr on '. tilled with water. Birds of many kinds came there to drink and bathe. \‘Vhen the Bluebirds arrived in the neighborhnntl I ptlt a Blue— hird house out on a pole, so that it was about ten feet from the ground In less than mo hours a pair of birds were inspect- ing the little tenement.

'I‘he Rollins came nextr When I dis- t'overed a Robin buildng in the cherry tree I made a mud-hath for him,—that is, I arranged a low dish filled with a mixture nt garden soil and inner, This preparation

i ts nu tnni-t- than placed under tht- tree He hopped into it and quit-kit made his little mud-halls. This nltl'nrteti innit lltiln nnt- pair of Rollins. ln int-t.

when the male hird came.

returning «rt-rill times. [lln’t‘ htliil in the ditlerent trees. 'l‘hirtt, t-nint lilt' Chipping Sparrows.

For them I scattered horse-hair ahout, anti

kept it ttith nt \t‘ntt‘r UII tln- grmtnd. Two of tin species lnlilt in thc yard. The Orioles appeared in Mn I tried

tr. (‘ilii their nttentinn In dropping mlorett yitrn< and strings nhntn in the grass and They came and trove their home alnuug tlle elm-tree Imughs. The male Oriole rarcd for the young tines and was kept ltusy taking fried to them. On one m't‘asiun l saw him in the street picking After he had the remainder of a

uu the hushcsv

and pulling at something.

tluwn array. I found

tent t‘aterpillnr mrnon: he had extracted lllL' t-rnttclrt~ and gin-n it to the little onesl

the ﬂier“ ripened ln- july. ninl nnnn

species ol ltirtls 0 mL‘ to the "UL It was (“films to time hmr tiiﬁrrt‘nti} ther ate the I‘ltc Rollins puIIt-tl tiff lllL‘ cherries and tit-n tn the titltn-nlk. whet-c [lit-y pit-tell the Bluebirds attacked tlllly

lhllxe that had fallen un tlle ground; while

fruitl

[item It) pit-re

the Oriole are one as soon as he pulled it

lmnl it»' “cut, The Killgbird tretpiently

visited the tree. Instead of sitting on a hranch and pulling at one, as the Robins (lid, he poised himself in the air and tugged at the cherry until it was wrenched from its stem. Then he ﬂew to the near birch and balanced the lrnit by giving it little tosses in the air. two or three inches above his head, catching it every time it fell. Finally

Durng the season seven hirtis built upon l the premisesiand why? It it was the bird bath, the mud and the nesting mate- rial about the yard, then birds can easily be attracted hymhcrxiMAKY El DOLKEAR, 7.1/2.» Cal/eye. Mart,

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disappeared down his throat.

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tandem

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An Anti-Sparrow Food-Shelf

Mla W. “1. Grant of Summit, N. Jl, sends in the act‘ompanying plan tor a win» dow fond-shelf, to which, he writes, such rumpnralivciy wild birds as Tanngers. Flick- ers and others come. but which the English Sparrow will not, after one trial, visit. A 'II, and from

hoard i; hinged to the window- the far end (sec Cut) a string is run to the tnp at the ninttnn, with a light spring b:- (\Veelll When a bird alights on the plat— lnrtn. the Ilttter will swing up and down, the amount at swing depending on the birds and the weight of the spring, to which the

string is altarlletii

(3°)