Show CN olcE IS BIRDS O OG G protection of 01 Feathered Tribe Worms The he Antidote for far a and Weeds I SPECIES BENEFICIAL I NATIVE r lute the Iho I Do o Y hut 1111 Cal ent do k Thou Good training In s study udY The II leas hils been er i at 1 too nO week the this lag Ing sad Ir fruits trull and The belt ot of studying our nl na nalice birds is b bY using II a camera or 11 lice TO 10 record tine the results ot of opera opeN glass Iau observations b I a far tor n a QUI om Is the best ot of ot o f s t mid Yut d birds la Is The IM t o m mw st t II nay a flipper or with a I stone or w 0 II a gap only r Excepting or Jb b t tr tte Leg II h yarrow sarrow which Is l n r n Id ought II to be el al natIe wild birds of 0 our Ie e I no ut ot of wild sided led Nn nest any uny r j d u G as J If If S bo harmed ARE lm ALLIES Insect and weed weedu J a I the he great 3 s b gnat or u um 0 II Irm tit In s sr I is ot of II woody edY pests posta that would u e e run t our flat flatI I s a 01 1 our ot at atm t I Ind are m n o t m y r tr rg b iI r f tOt oe s Without 11 tho t h o Ail aid 1 0 ot f doubtful whether 0 or r not nol wo sva i iI i b rd d tt It s 4 quad lud br be able to 10 win this battle baUle fir tor torII r s I p II In 1 the lait h t half n a century the UIO I t o e Js Is ha e been reduced In um OS and their places have been t sea Ken t l the English sparrow Insect I ty IS tae multiplied into Inlo swarming muttons h causo the thee e tL lor of entire crOps over Oer I U JI As the native birds decrease Ih I h I Increase So with t Ih In all 1111 cases more than one bI h ll and m many cases S tulI fully nine te Ie II ti of the fond ot of the Iho that have the eef grin fruit eaters eater consists ot of the tho thod thed d ot of wlM and usually harmful weeds so v If iet Tito choice that any ti II It make In this tiIs matter is II either to I i I I protect the birds o Or to live C with I h the I II I hugs worms u mil insect tribes and to with tho treed Iod pests peels Let there be no mistake here her This I Is the tho It la 18 either birds or bugs and outer things 1 a r kl u the people ot of America have hlo their e eyes 11 nod understandings to the Iho o lh tlc sense 0 of beauty braut ot of intellectual pleasure accompany the of nt bird IlIum ago ge and wood and have havo shot shat trapped nil but exterminated within reach courI DO lint But while there is 18 life lite Is hope Ono One pair of lC robins may produce 10 young In one year car and It if Ih these 30 should go fO on Increasing free from by enemIes and accidents they might produce ll In t 30 10 n birds ot of theil h tont to n most or nt tho Insect p gist Uin III an any wl wide neigh neighborhood It If wn should not only let lei leitho lets the tho e lone alone but bul ol nIa s o rear nod train thom them they render us still sill I greater great r service and a very er delightful companionship as t wall nut Tut 1 It Is fatt cled by some nn nod asserted b by others that the Iho robin Is hi n a thief end steak fruit etc elc It Is true trUc that In the of oC wild fruits which the robin ate ho be before fore man removed th the native forests and shrubbery the limo r rh r does cal ant a few cherries and ond tnt ut let It II us see eQ what the tho acts ore arp t ore wo we begin to condemn the tho robins FOOD OF TIm The Tito robin eats fruits to bl be sure but butan nn an ot of too shows that over oer 43 42 per llor cent ot of the tho food or of this bird Is animal matter principally In Insects while the remainder is III made Me up 1111 largely ot of small wild her bar barrios herrice rios rice about one tenth of the Iho whale food tood hut but lit III August t comprise fIor 30 per pcr nIe hus form about G per tent and InQ snails and angleworms the tho r remainder Noxious insect e more than a ar s r l of nt the tho e r rood food Ot Of th o 00 table teed food n 47 per cent consisted of wild fruits and only Oil 4 1 per coot cont on the dor dorage age of cultivated kinds ex except except In June JUlie and aM July Juh when the latter proportion reached 2 25 per cent or of the tho vegetable food tood eaten The rob robin III eats willi fruit nil all the year oar wild cherries slid grapes r holly huckle service berries and weed seeds The early cherry is hi the cultivated fruit that Buffers most be beMUSe MUSe It ripens at 1 a time when salmon It Is almost 1 till the only fruit accessible Thu rhe lm at Washington thus sun m e the sues cuse or of the Iho FOR Fan rIlE RODiN In I I tt of tita tho tact fact that the Iho takes 10 ns as much wild willi as aR cul cui cultivated fruit It seems Beem unwise o to do cle th the to 10 rove cave so 90 little Nor Nur Noris is 18 this for tor b by n little care both holh birds and fruit rull 11 cony ho bo preserved Ill ed much fruit Is grown rOIn It is no treat It lase ss 10 give up ono one treo to 10 the birds and In some somo mace the crop crOll cnn be h by fruit k not abundant a few tew mull Crull hearing shrubs nod vines Planted wilt will servo for tor ornament on and lo Inn for the birds rime rho Russian is IA 1 a vigorous grower anti antia a profuse C ripening nt at Ih time Homo time limo us as the cherry 0 tnt tin II as lion hus hUfi gene 1111 mo most t birds seem to pre for Its 1111 fruit to 10 any other It is IH be hived that 1 n number of mulberry trees around the gu or orchard would tully fully protect Iho more moru fruits It Ill is moreover u remarkable fact that thai the willi fruits upon which time thil birds teed feed largely are lr Iho those o which man neither gathers f ther for hi own US use nor adopts fur or cultivation tion TILE DOVE DOYE The Tho mourning dove doo In some l our IIO most t beautiful b 1 a 1110 breeder roaring only two young rt at II a time rho Jho of oe agriculture ms found that thu of the dove consists of gads ot of weeds together with some somo grain The Th ot of tiro th continue ot of stomachs shows Ihl that over 00 J per por cent ot of time lilt food con COli slats wholly of matter less than 1 pa mount being a Wheat oats rye no corn boric arid buckwheat Ju lt rare lere found In cf f time tho and con constituted 3 32 per cent nt ot of the tho to 10 tol food tood However of title this was grain l ln up 1111 to In the Iho dales after the harvesting harvo was over Ot Of tho Iho various grains Baton alen wheat Is 15 the tho favorite anti Is almost the Iho only ono one taken when In good 0 Cot con anion lon Most of It It was eaten In th lima months of July Jul and August Corn the tho lI second In III amount was wall mull old aid grain taken from the Iho after the tho harvest or from flom roads 0 or stock Hock yards In n summer The Tho prin principal cipal 1 most constant diet lot however is 18 time seeds ot of weeds Times eaten enlen nl at all ot of the year car They rho cun 64 pOI per cent of the Iho annual food tood supply show wry very little varia variation tion during nn any Somo of the tho seeds oaten were so It that norto hut but time thE species ot of birds would eat cat them atul then titon only when to 10 do so 10 b by lack ot of other food tood In one une j GOO or of limo tho wood woot orre orreIn In seeds M ot of barn rams lr Jr oxtail and in a 11 kinds or of seeds none ot of them useful anti most of oC them noxious and woolly weedy plants fly By our Jur law doves may ha killed from rain lug Aug AugH H 10 to 10 Doe Dec 1 L nut hut open ii 11 probably too inn long and should bo be shortened to No Nov 1 TIm TILE MEADOW LARK LARKA A well known species I Is the morn mea meadow dow lark Animal matter constitutes 73 mind vegetable 23 nor Iler cent of It its 1111 food Crickets and grasshoppers are oro the Iho mO t Important ot of time tho In Insect oat oaten en 1111 ing up In July Juh and August G ca caper per cent n nn ot of this birds food Beetles n tell fat s of them Useful ones I oat cat malto up tiro Iho next lie item Groin weeds and ami othet hurt hard seeds oro the lust mostly In winter and s and therefore rim elm q waste kernels Thus mom than half III or of the meadow ow larks fool food cnn cun ls or of harmful Insects Its lis vegetable food is III com pUlled either ot of we weeds or waste and the Ihu ro 10 Is made up ot of tI or neutral insects mind spiders 1 point In III the Iho birds favor is III that naturally nn an Insect eater It ItIs itla la Is to 10 subsist Oil nil vegetable fond and c Is not to ml mi ralo In cold I farther than is III nce nty to Ind ground roe from snow now IN SCHOOLS Front the relations or of the birds to Ihl insects and the and to 10 the Ihl IhlI I school garden tn in which ho ha Is III rearing planta th the may learn lIll this class or of facts hlo hll he nn out that the and amI tin tho dragott Ily the tho thoI ladybug I Anti and he toad ere are helpful In plant rearing and vIlli should be Bwl a cued I beame Ihl they preserve hi his plants hy by Insect enemies Ire 10 will hn hove still tr w to 10 harem n bird that t destroys the tho In Insect et or weed nhe ot nt its growing plants The boy who has hall seen II et Cabin takIng Injurious In sects from hl hi garden Berrien to feed tl its Ils young will h rely shy n a rock at It on time tho ely I unu It If It Il do 1055 oat u a tOll few In the spring And when then he Und his JIt lt t cat with n II favorite bird In its lIs mouth ho he begins to learn that paws If Is un an enemy In dl Let Jet Letus us that after a little ot of this sort ort for tor the rising generation we Inny n not lt nl 01 ways WIlM have Ih time sumac di ill in get tint rid 1111 or of cat whose us its usHI HI In I Is moro more even than thun It its of birr All 11 wild or stray cats should bo be put nut of nt time the way Nona hut but household pets should he be permitted to live 1110 Mice are more easily and more ally nil disposed h by In other trays than with cats cala |