. Nature study and life. Nature study. 322 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE books, has been collected by Miss Ball into the chart opposite. We can see, for the various birds, so far as is known, what the species does for man and what, in turn, we may do for the birds by way of insuring for them an abundant and inexpensive supply of their preferred foods. Birds have been persecuted and slaughtered for generations because ViREO AND Nest they have been compelled to levy toll in cultivated fruits for their invaluable services. I say compelled, because we have hitherto paid no attention to the natura
. Nature study and life. Nature study. 322 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE books, has been collected by Miss Ball into the chart opposite. We can see, for the various birds, so far as is known, what the species does for man and what, in turn, we may do for the birds by way of insuring for them an abundant and inexpensive supply of their preferred foods. Birds have been persecuted and slaughtered for generations because ViREO AND Nest they have been compelled to levy toll in cultivated fruits for their invaluable services. I say compelled, because we have hitherto paid no attention to the natural sources of food supply for our birds and, in clearing the land, have destroyed, often unnecessarily, the native trees and shrubs upon which they depended. It is now well known that birds prefer wild to cultivated fruit, and that to protect our fruit the most effective and humane way is to leave or plant such wild or valueless fruits as ripen at the same time. In coming to realize how recklessly the country has been stripped, the writer considers it bad biology even to put scarecrows in the cherry trees to frighten the â. ,.â, â .,....., . ., J o The little bird sits at his door in the sun, birds from our gardens until Atllt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun we have planted wild cherries, with the deluge of summer it receives; ,, . , _ , . His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, mulberries, and JuneberrieS And the heart in her dumb breast flutters for the birds to feed on. We He slngs't?the wide world, and she to her can find plenty of other things , â"''^'.'~ .â. ... ... ^ J '^ In the nice ear of Nature which song is the to eat, while the birds cannot. test? ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ All farms and many gardens 5/r/,«««>/, p. ,06. and city lots have room for some tree or trees which would furnish food for birds. Our city streets, school yards, and public parks might be planted most profitably. Please note that these image
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