| Show BIRD SANCTUARY IN ORCHARD farmers and fruit growers urged to plant trees to provide nesting places for the robin f one hundred and seventy six species of insects attack the apple tree while apple producing spates spend as high as 3 tor spraying trees to keep down the codling moth instead of putting poison chich often kills the birds on your trees why not encourage these tireless little workers to come and rid your fruit trees of insect posts every orchard should be a bird sanctuary what are you doing to make a safe refuge of in return tor shelter and protection your feathered friends will brighten your attle world with their beautiful plumage while working every hour in the day for you and bang glad songs of thanksgiving while they work the liberty bell bird club of the farm journal says that the destructive insect invasion Is not caused altogether by the killing of the birds them selves who would eat the insects but largely because the farmer has cut down the trees and shrubbery depriving his former little of their nesting places without providing others it Is urging the farmers and an friend the robin growers to plant those trees and shrubs which will entice the foraging robin away from his favorite cherry tree and yet maintains that he is en titled to a little of even this choice fruit in return for all the ravening fruit pests he devours it claims that he will not however bother the cherries it be has russian mulberries which ripen at the same time this tireless forager also prefers holly elder sour gum shad berries wild cherries wild grapes green brier and to cherries lie Is such a gen r aleman robber that a bird bath has been known to lure him away from his favorite mulberry the robin likes to be a near neighbor to man and that he Is a more obliging and honest one than Is generally believed Is shown by his propensity to rid a farmer a cabbage patch ot cut worms all in exchange tor a few perhaps wormy cherries |
