. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. oto b\' Errnjit Harold Jiaynes A FEl'liIXG OX SUl^T "Perhaps the simplest scheme of feeding, the least trouhle. and the most attractive to numbers of birds, is the tj'ing of a piece of suet to a convenient limb, or perhaps tu the balustrade of one's piazza, preferably in a protected spot and one that can at the same time be easily "watched from some window" (see page 333' trays from thv weather and at tlie same time admit light and allow of easy ol)- servation. These, when ])laced among the shrubbery ab
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. oto b\' Errnjit Harold Jiaynes A FEl'liIXG OX SUl^T "Perhaps the simplest scheme of feeding, the least trouhle. and the most attractive to numbers of birds, is the tj'ing of a piece of suet to a convenient limb, or perhaps tu the balustrade of one's piazza, preferably in a protected spot and one that can at the same time be easily "watched from some window" (see page 333' trays from thv weather and at tlie same time admit light and allow of easy ol)- servation. These, when ])laced among the shrubbery about one's house, pro\e most attractive. Baron von Herlepsch has invented also a food bell that supplies grain, etc., auto- matically from a rece|)tacle above, and which may be sus])en(le(l from a tree or piazza roof, or an)- other convenient place (see page 331). A\'indow boxes are a never-ceasing si iinx-e of enjo\nient. Air. Ernest Harold T'ia_\-nes built the first I ever saw at his hnnie in Meriden, X. H., a particularly attractive one, which has helped him t(T become intimate with an astonishing va- riety of Ijirrls (see page 336). I'ood shelves may be put up in all sorts of ]jrotected places—about houses, against tree trunks, etc.: and a food car, a sort of moN'ing free-lunch counter, which mav be run con\-enienth' on a wire from window to neighboring tree, is actually manufactured by one enterprising gentle- man ; and the same man Ijuilds also a sheltered food-house that turns with the \vind like a weather vane, so as to present always a lee side for the better protec- tion of the birds (see page 326). r>aron von ]'.erle|isch originateil also what he calls a fo', New City, N. V, Price, 40 cents. 33^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Soci
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