. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . asa place of residence. In the rouiih buildings of our grandftithers there were. Fig. 163. —iNFr. Cliapinans bird ) (From THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 387 always openings left for the birds to enter. The rafterswere round or rough-hewn timbers, on which they couldfind points of attachment for their nests. Most barns nowbuilt are closely boarded and battened, clapb
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . asa place of residence. In the rouiih buildings of our grandftithers there were. Fig. 163. —iNFr. Cliapinans bird ) (From THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 387 always openings left for the birds to enter. The rafterswere round or rough-hewn timbers, on which they couldfind points of attachment for their nests. Most barns nowbuilt are closely boarded and battened, clapboarded orshingled to the ground. Xo entrance hole is left for thebirds. The timl>ers are sawn so snioothly that the birds,if they get in, can find no safe attachment for their where the eaves project so as to give sufficient shelterfor Swallows, the mud with which they build their nestswill not stick to the planed and painted boards. Let every farmer having such a barn cut an ornamentalopening at least a foot wide in each gable, leaving it openall summer, so that the Swallows may fly in; or, better still,cut an opening three or four feet long over the barn door,through which Swallows can go at will. Let him nail roughcleats horizontally on some of the rafters, or put up littlebr
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