| Show Swallows Swallow Hold Secret Secretor of or Their Winter HomeI Home I Exactly where the swallows swallow spend the winter I is 11 their own secret tret Many Mony students of birds ornithologists belle be he- lle lIe e e that they go o to Ulla Island near South America ci Ho Jo far however DO no DOroe roe ne has definitely located locatell their winter home They start going southward In July July which Is II earlier than thaD most birds It U is e evident eIdent Ident that birds bird know when I It ft Is I. time to migrate and when to return return re re- turn turo to us Ul They also know where they thy are lire going for tor certain birds bIrd I will return season after aner season euon to th the same ame vine tine on the veranda of ot a t home bome arriving lag ing on 00 the same day dal of the month each tach year This fact has haa been established established by placing numbered bands bandl on birds' birds legs before they thel migrate It Is I. not nothing hi DC less lesl than thao marvelous that they are able alle to know when to travel where to go and how to get et there sad end return Gene Stratton Porter Por lor ter a great nature student and writer once said Eald What determines the precise pre pre- else cise minute of their starting to come cometo cometo to us or to leave e us u or how they follow tollow follow fol tol- low their trackless path high In air across seas sas and continents mostly under under un un- der r cover er of darkness we do not Dot I know One Une fact seems serm obvious that some force or Influence takes possession of ot their actions at nt these thelle times and that they cannot help doing what they thel do Some call this Instinct and anI others mil call It U subconscious mind Missouri 1 irn nn- nn Compass Compau Needle Can Be n. Distracted From Pole Pol The const coast and geodetic survey lOey says lay nt at numerous places place on the earth there are disturbances of ot the magnetic condition con con- which Is ii normal to th the tb region no so that the compass campa needle Is II turned out of ot the direction which It could be expected to make there In a small area near Juneau u. u Alaska values alnea of declination ranging from liri degrees west ut to degrees east were wre observed observed ob ob- served where about 31 n degrees 30 SO min tun- minutes sites utes east would be expected and at atone atone atone one spot the dIp dtp W was I 89 0 degrees 4 minutes and the compass needle lost Us its directive property so BO that the declination dec dee was Will Indeterminate Here the disturbing material was Will evidently e quite near nar the surface and limited In extent as the effect t disappeared within within with with- in 10 a few miles of of the point of maximum mOIl maxi mum disturbance At Port lort Snettisham sham chain Alaska Auka there Is III an area ua of marked local disturbance which extends extends ex u. tends tend beyond the land nearly across the adjacent deep delp Inlet In the lie province pro pro- vince since of there Is la a notable not able region of local disturbance extending extending ex ex- tending for about m kilometers In a southeast northwest direction Uon |
