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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 2
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv02penn (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Game Commission
Subjects: Game protection; Birds
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Game commission
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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> â 20 All boxes should be fastened securely, so tbat they cannot shake, otherwise the birds will not readily settle in them. It seems to me that almost any boy and many a girl should be able to build a bird house and 1 am sure, that at least some of the time of the students of the manual training schools of the State could not be put to better use, than in building bird homes during the winter months, to be put up at the proper time, that is, at least a month before the time you expect the bird to occupy it. If you are not in position to build bird homes, write to some one like J. Warren Jacobs, of Waynesburg, Pa., or to some other person who understands the matter. You can help the birds that will not build in artificially prepared homes, by planting ever-green trees, in which they can find shelter, or you can bend together and tie with a wire several small bushes, or limbs, thus making a cluster of twigs, in which the nest can be safely built, or you can cut oft" some large limb of a tree like the poplar, that is likely to throw out many small branches in the place of the larger limb and that will thus supply a thick cluster in which the nest can be placed the next year. You can put up feeding boxes for the birds covering them with a roof so that the seed, or grain, or other food placed therein may b⬠kept drv' and clear of snow. Any form will do so that the food is not placed in the dark. You can plant sweet cherry trees or Russian mulberry trees for the summer birds. A piece of tallow, or of fat meat, or a piece of pork, or the shin bone of a freshly killed beef, nailed against a post, or hung up in some of the trees of the orchard, during the cold weather, will be most highly appreciated by our winter birds, such as the chickadee, the nuthatch, the downy woodpecker, the hairy woodpecker, and other birds, and be followed by a full return for anything you may have expended, either in time or money, along this line. Just a little shelter, only a little food, for poor "Bob White" in the time of his need will surely bring its reward. He is ever ready to earn his living, and has worked for you all spring, all summer, and all fall, and now, because the ground is covered with snow, or will soon be covered, he is compelled to turn to you not as a beggar, but as a laborer truly worthy of his hire. He Jisks for a little pay for services rendered, and to be rendered, and calls attention to what he did this year as evidence of what he will do next year. Through the cutting out of brush and briars along the old fence rows, and elsewhere. Bob has been driven from his usual nesting place to the grain fields and the me.adows, where he meets the reaper, the mower and the horse rake, greatly to his discomfort. I
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