Show I 1 ATTRACT WILD BIRDS if yon ton want them thein about tile the blatt a white mulberry vree I 1 rec if you live in a suburban town wa adz want it to eneo encourage urage wild birds to visit and id live about your house the observe nut lint seyman says you cannot wak makr advances to them in i bolter better way than by planting a white mulberry tree an and abolishing cats the first thing thin to attend to is to gel gt rid ot of all the cats which come about your grounds you can do tills this tour mu r tree Is growing groining but bit dont take too long ions about it for th hi 2 it I 1 te mulberry Is one of tile the lutek CAL growing trees that I 1 know ol of orl ori mall anally it came from china and aas brought blought to this part of the country about fifty years ago when theio wan wait craze for raising silkworms since that time it has been much neglected out nut there are many places like my illy own of the country upon the shrews bury river N where it hn lis found 1 1 I con genial soil hoil and climate and now grewo N wild ild 1 I 1 have one valte mulbe mulberry iry ire tree five I 1 ears cars n ago 0 it was only about six feet tall with a trunk not dot bigger 1 a I broomstick today to day it Is thirty fel fe ft l 1 tall ind and its handsome globular hoal head lias has a diameter of about twenty merity fiat feet it is 1 1 I pretty tree with its shiny leaves mid and its close foliage ind and makis a shelter which the birds love but bill it 13 i when the fruit ripens that the tice be comes the strongest drawing attraction for them the fruit is about fill three quarters of an inch long and ili nian mawkishly kish sweet to our human taste but then seems to lie be hardly one of our small native birds that does not love oia it tit fruit bogin began to ripen about juno june I 1 13 5 3 this year and ever since then th there ere been it a minute of the day y when I 1 there here at least oil one bird lit in the tree to one who as nut not conversant conversa iii with the groat variety of our native birds it is a revelation to witch watch them ome lowe after a taste of the sweet fruit there are catbirds cat birds and robins sparrows of more kind kinds i than you you have lingers and toes warblers warb lers and cereo bercos and even hummingbirds the fruit will last until about july 10 or ia 1 the white mulberry furnishes an other source of delight to the hie bard i which Is not so much a matter of pie pleas 1 I ure to its owner conner tills Is because its leaves le acs are exceedingly toothsome to 1 some of the caterpillars and pardieu barly to the tent lent caterpillar the elder the mulberry and the apple tree are favorites of tills this worm orni ov I 1 hat haie c so some colonies of caterpillars on ray illy mulberry tree but thanks to the same game birds which oat elit tile the fruit the v worms are also soon eaten and not 1 a I single colony of the he worms has so far got beyond the twig it originated upon before its members were snapped up tip ns as choice morsels by the colony of birds and rid do you have english Rii glish sparrows certainly it a large lock flock of them they live in the wi wistaria starla vines anil and nest under the eaves of the barn and do they not drive away avav tho the ther birds no nor do I 1 believe that they have atone so anywhere it is true that there are now DOW many places where none of cur native birds Is left and that in ill these same places the inglish english sparrows abou abound tid and tills this has given rise to a lielet belief that tile the other birds have been driven away by them but I 1 have never seen been the native birds worsted by them on my little place they all ajl exist together and in harmony the robins a are re more quarrelsome than the english sparrows I 1 believe that it if careful observations b ser ions were made it would be found that where the native birds have disappeared it was tile result of other causes and that the sparrows remained simply because they do not mind things whigs would drive all wild birds baroff far off people and cats and lack of shade and fruit are potent rei bons econs fur for tile the departure of the lie 0 w o lit lid till lili ds cats especially new york sun |