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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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Geor-gia, the Carolinas, and other southernstates, diligently searching for food.Davie says that it may often be heardon moonlight nights. The nest is placedon the ground, usually in the vicinityof a stream or pond, often on an ele-vated spot in the grass or in a fur-rowed field. It is merely a slight de-pression in the ground. The eggs aredrab or clay color, thickly spotted andblotched with blackish brown and um-ber, small and quite pointed. Theyare generally four in number, measur-ing 1.50 to 1.60 long by about i.iobroad. The plovers resemble the snipe instructure, but are smaller, averagingabout the size of a thrush. Their billsalso are shorter. They have three toesusually; their bodies are plump; short,thick necks, long wings, and in someinstances they have spurs on the wings.They pick their food, which is largelyof an animal nature, from the surfaceof the ground, instead of probing forit, as their shorter bills indicate. Theflesh of the killdeer is not highly re-garded as a food.
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COTTON TEXTILES. IL W. E. WATT, A. M. COTTON is spun and woven intoso many useful forms that wecould hardly live without itsince we have become so thor-oughly accustomed to the comfortsand luxuries it supplies to us.From the loose fiber that we use intreating our teeth when they get totroubling us to the delicate lace hand-kerchief which is such a dream of theweavers art we use cotton for our com-monest and our most extraordinarypurposes. Muslin takes its name from Mosul,in India, where it was first made.Although muslin is now made in bothEurope and America in great quan-tities, the kind that is most famed forits fineness is that from Dacca, India.To get an idea of the fine threads usedin making the rarest of this muslin wemust note that one pound of cotton isspun into three hundred eightyhanks of thread with eight hundredforty yards of thread in each hank.This means that one pound of cottonis spun out to the length of 319,000yards, or over one hundred eighty-onemiles. One pound of th

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