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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A BIRDS TEPEE MADE OF LIMA BEAN POLES WITH THE VINES STILL ATTACHED Photographed by F. M. C. at Englewood, N. J. 232 Bird-Lore carriers. Of course a small fund must be raised for the carrying on of soextensive an enterprise; but, when it is known that contributions of grainand mill-sweepings are even more acceptable than money, the material willnot be lacking. Then, when one village tries this experiment and enthusiasm is kindled,another is sure to follow, like the leaf fire that runs along the fences in au-tumn until all the country-side seems bound by it. In due time, thewhole country might be joined by a chain of stations for food and shelter,if each society for bird protection will not only lend a hand, but stretchit far out toward its remote neighbors.
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CLEARING UF A disastrous proceeding for summer, as well as for winter birdsPhotographed by A. C. Dike, Bristol, Vt. How to Attract the Winter Birds About Our Homes By EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH. Wareham, Mass. TWENTY-NINE years ago I first began feeding the winter birds.In those days no observing boy who roamed the woods in wintercould help seeing that Crows, Jays, and Chickadees came, at regularintervals, to feed upon the skinned bodies of foxes and other animals lefthanging in the trees by hunters and trappers. So, in the winter of 1876-77,I provided a goodly feast for the birds within sight of my window. People have complained to me that the birds would not come to thefood provided for them; but when this is the case the fault is usually theirown, as they have not gone about feeding the birds in the right way.There is no obstacle to the plan of assembling native birds at feedingplaces in the city or country, if we except the Sparrow and the cat, both ofwhich must be eliminated to insure s

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