. Gleanings from nature . Style 7, Martin house of Thomas H. Wilkinson, Attorney a1 Law, Waynesburg, May 6, 1910. (Photo by Jacobs July 24, 1910.) 65 Interest in the Purple Martin Increasing With a slightly increased advertising field, during 1910, requestsfor bird-house catalogues more than doubled, and likewise the salesof Martin houses increased nearly one hundred per cent. A few ofthese houses went to persons who bought Martin houses last year, andwho wished to provide for an increasing colony. Others were orderedin duplicate for neighbors and FIGURE S Style No. 1 hous
. Gleanings from nature . Style 7, Martin house of Thomas H. Wilkinson, Attorney a1 Law, Waynesburg, May 6, 1910. (Photo by Jacobs July 24, 1910.) 65 Interest in the Purple Martin Increasing With a slightly increased advertising field, during 1910, requestsfor bird-house catalogues more than doubled, and likewise the salesof Martin houses increased nearly one hundred per cent. A few ofthese houses went to persons who bought Martin houses last year, andwho wished to provide for an increasing colony. Others were orderedin duplicate for neighbors and FIGURE S Style No. 1 house of F. M. Brooks, President of the Matchless BrassMfg Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., erected on his summer residencegrounds, forty-two miles from New York City. An ideal place for a Martin colony; and one in which the atmospherewill be cleansed of mosquitos, and the gardener and fruit growerwill receive silent but positive assistance from these valuable birds.(See Mr. Brooks letter, page 82.) The well established fact that the Martins are among the mostvaluable insect-eating birds does not seem to be very generally appre-ciated by the fruit grower and agriculturalist. An effort was made toreach these classes through representative periodicals but with verylittle success. Inconceivable billions of insect pests are destroyed annually bybirds, and yet the claim is justly made that, generally, birds are de-creasing while insects are increasing every year. 66 There is no justifiable reason for this! If one twenty-fifth theeffort was made for preservation of bird life, in t
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