. Department circular. Agriculture. 19 or bag may be suspended from one side near the open front. It may be necessary to attract the birds to it at first by putting out chaff on the ground beneath and suet on some near-by tree. A little observation will teach one how to lure the birds to it, and when they have once learned to come they will prefer it in winter to the unsheltered ground. The seed cannot blow out, snow and rain cannot blow in, and if it is so mounted that cats and squirrels cannot get in, it is as nearly perfect a feeding appliance as can be Fig. 21. — Food house used in
. Department circular. Agriculture. 19 or bag may be suspended from one side near the open front. It may be necessary to attract the birds to it at first by putting out chaff on the ground beneath and suet on some near-by tree. A little observation will teach one how to lure the birds to it, and when they have once learned to come they will prefer it in winter to the unsheltered ground. The seed cannot blow out, snow and rain cannot blow in, and if it is so mounted that cats and squirrels cannot get in, it is as nearly perfect a feeding appliance as can be Fig. 21. — Food house used in the sanctuary of the Charlestown Bird Club, Charlestown, New Hampshire. Suet is placed in the lower tray to attract the birds until thej' find the upper tray, which is protected from storm. (Photograph by courtesy of Walter M. Buswell.) Anti-Squirrel and Anti-Sparroiv Devices. Gray squirrels are so greedy that often they are not satis- fied to take the food as it comes from the hopper, but gnaw away. 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 Massachusetts. Dept. of Agriculture. Boston, Mass.
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