Forest and stream . selecting a house bedaubed with grinningyellow chrome I Believe me, these birds of azure blue andbreasts of red would never think of degrading their beautifulplumage by bringing it in vulgar contrast with a hideousyellow. I know of none of the animal kingdom who are so aesthetic, artistic, nice and exquisite in all their tastes andhabits as are our native wild birds. They seem to have aninstinctive knowledge of the propriety and fitness of allthings, never breaking up natures harmonious color plan,but always falling in with it. My father, some years ago, fastened a number o
Forest and stream . selecting a house bedaubed with grinningyellow chrome I Believe me, these birds of azure blue andbreasts of red would never think of degrading their beautifulplumage by bringing it in vulgar contrast with a hideousyellow. I know of none of the animal kingdom who are so aesthetic, artistic, nice and exquisite in all their tastes andhabits as are our native wild birds. They seem to have aninstinctive knowledge of the propriety and fitness of allthings, never breaking up natures harmonious color plan,but always falling in with it. My father, some years ago, fastened a number of flowerpots against the side of a brick house. The holes at the bot-tom of the pots were made large enough for wrens and toosmall for bluebirds, as a battle between these two species hadbeen raging for a number of days over the possession of theonly bird house on the grounds. I have since used flower-pot bird houses very extensively. The simplest method ofmaking them is to fasten a five-inch pot against a stone or. FLOWER POT BIRD HOUSE. brick wall. The drain hole of the pot is enlarged by chip-ping off a small piece at a time with the sharp ferrule endof a file, but to do this successfully the pot must first besoaked in water for three hours to soften the ware. Do nottry to make the hole exactly symmetrical, but have its out-line irregular. Two small holes are also chipped in thesides of the pot, one of the diameter of one half inch; thishole when the pot is iu position is to answer as a window toadmit a small quantity of light into the interior of the pot;the other hole, on the under side of the pot, is to be but one-quarter of an inch in diameter, and is for the purpose ofadmitting a current of fresh air. When it is placed in posi-tion the pot is held against the wall to which it is to be fast-ened by leaning a post or board against it. For a cementfor fastening and ornamenting the pot, plaster of Paris is tobe preferred to Portland or other cements, the plaster beinglight
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