Show I NOME TOWN I HELPS I WELL WORTH SMALL OUTLAY Cultivation of Hedges and Fences Along Railroads' Railroads Right of Way Is of Real Practical Value A number of railroad companies ba have ve already made considerable effort to beautify their rights of way war and station grounds In some places the roads ni-c ni paralleled for many miles by hedges and the land Jand on either side of pf the tracks Is covered by beautiful turf About the stations hedges shrubbery shrubbery shrubbery shrub shrub- bery and flower beds are common It If this planting could be aimed in iii part at least leat toward attracting birds it would l be very effective nad great grent good would be done If t the clumps clums s of ot shrubs were formed of kinds furnishing furnish ing Ipg bird food If more of them were placed along the rights of way If thE thu hedges w were ere allowed to bear fruit and auel If the fence poles or p possibly even some of the tele telegraph raph poles poles bore bore bIrdhouses bird birdhouses birdhouses houses thousands thousand of birds could live where very few do now The suggestions made are by no means without practical value to the right of w way ay itself For instance supplying sup sup- pl plying plIng Ing bird boxes Is the best method of preventing damage to poles by woodpeckers which come anyway Under undEr under un Un- der present conditions and make their own homes Hedges or fences densely covered with vines would decrease If not entirely obviate expenditures for forthe forthe forthe the movable snow fences now extensively extensively extensively exten exten- u used ed |