. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). CORNELL R\iral School Leaflet [FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.] Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from September to May, and enteed as secand-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office at Ithaca, New Yock, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1^4. L. H. Bailey, Director ALICE G McCLOSKEY, Editor Prof
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). CORNELL R\iral School Leaflet [FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.] Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from September to May, and enteed as secand-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office at Ithaca, New Yock, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1^4. L. H. Bailey, Director ALICE G McCLOSKEY, Editor Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advisers. Vol. 3 ITHACA, N Y., OCTOBER, 1909 No. 2 THE ENGLISH SPARROW Arthur A. Allen- WHO does not know the little feathered immigrant, the English Sparrow ? Summer and winter our eaves and doorsteps resound with his boisterous chirp. Brought into this country from Europe not sixty years ago, he has become the commonest bird east of the Mississippi river and is rapidly extending his range throughout the west. Some of the birds we have studied are typical of the woods, others of the fields, but the English Sparrow is never at home far from the abode of man. Wherever crack or cranny offers support, he builds his bulky nest and rears his young. When suitable places about the house and barn are exhausted, he learns to construct a huge, spherical nest in the fork of a tree which he enters through an opening in one side. Sometimes he even turns another bird out of its nest in order to use the site. Nor is this the greatest of his faults, for he has many. Indeed, were we to weigh them, I fear that his bad qualities would over- balance his good ones. But even when we condemn him we must not lose sight of his good qualities. It is true that the greater part of the food of the English Sparrow consists of grain, which he very often rifles from the corncrib, the chicken yard, or the grain fields. But on the other hand, he destroy
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