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Show "x r : BI BS LOYAL FRIENDS f OF COUNTRY PEOPLE ( Tly Kill Innrctti Tlwit Destroy Our Crops utul Tiitlr Sonus Are Dilltf tillully "Sweet und Clict'rlnjr. V-:P'M .:,;-T... y;: '.; '. :'.-.-- v.':; v'j L.'-" . V;v 'rf J-.A. v-.f r s . : liltrf&i Lu, ,.,,..... st,j I BV-MI! Li. :..'.- An Insect Destro yer on Its Nest. There Is no sweeter sound around tht farmhouse tbrn the notes of sum-mar sum-mar birds. Minis are welcome visit-on visit-on and true nnd appreciated friends. Tube without thrin, llfo loses much of Its charm and beauty; lo have their coapany, life cannot help but be chry and orcharding and gardening a Ncress. Birds bring us both pleas-unj pleas-unj and prollt They cheer ua wllh tlKlr songs. They kill Inserts that (lartroy our crops. The amount of good they do In both waya can ecarre-ly ecarre-ly as over estimated. Even the hated Kiillah sparrow does more good than Usees harm. A single pair In one day. with a neat of young, will carry off and consume several hundred cabbage cttrrplllare. How many other harmful harm-ful Insecta they destroy during the coarse of a summer, no one knowa. Since stringent quail lawa have gone llto active effort In ao many atalea. and quails have Increased In numbers, chinch bugs have practically disappeared disap-peared from the face of the country, tub a saving of millions of dollars wrh year In grain crops. Quails may lot be wholly responsible for all of this good, yet It Is positively known that they destroy countless numbers f the noxious bugs each summer. Dlrds will stay about a home If they Ve given encouragement. The best ) :l'''J ", a '',..,,"(, .") ' ' ' f'.'.l -V! . . .! ' , .-'V 'i,' . t.', '..:, Clt' - ' ' !) 1- y - v..-::A...v. A Dainty Morsel for the Youngttsrs. encouragement la an abundance of trees and shrubs fur them to hide and nest In. Most of our common birds nest In low bushes or the lower branches of trees. A few nest on the ground. If thore are treea and shrubs about the home the birds will surely come and make these their home. If thay are not disturbed they will return to this retreat from spring lo spring aftsr their unniiul winter visit to the auuthland. Cais and birds do not get along well together. Or rather, birds do not feel coiufortable In the presence of cuts. Cats, however, have mi object Ion to the presence of blrda. If you want the rounding presence of birds, you must not keep cuts. It Is a simple question of choice. Caia will not only kill and eat both young and old birds, but frighten them away In trying to catch them. Throwing atones or shooting at them will result In driving them away. Illrda are wild animals and natural, ly timid, yet by giving them natural proti-rtlon and nesting plsres In the form of treea and bushes, they will come and alay near the dwelling house. The bouse wren haa nested aeaaon after season on the writer's front porch and hua aat nn a vine and sung within three feel of Ihe newspaper be waa reading. Nearly all birds' that come about the place will become almost al-most aa tame aa poultry If they are not disturbed In their natural artlvl. Ilea and are made to feel that they will not be harmed. Avoid quick and threatening movementa In their pros-ence. pros-ence. If a robin alights near you on Ihe lawn lo look for a worm, either atand atlll or walk atralght ahead about your bualneaa and It will not be alarmed. On th north and west sides of our I borne grounds we have an abundance I of treea and shrubs, aome places In dense masses. In these from a dozen In twenty different kinds of blrda nest eneh summer, and other dozens coma aa frequent visitors. Their twitterings are heard all day long In summer, and In early morning In May and June they till the air wllh their rhorui anng, greeting the coming day with the awetest music. We should not care to live In a home not aurrounded with shrubs and treea filled euch spring and summer wllh our friends. Ihe birds. |