. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Fhoto by Earnest Harold Baynes THE FOOD BELL "Baron von Berlepsch has invented a food bell that supplies grain, etc., automatically from a receptacle above, and which may be suspended from a tree or piazza roof or any other place that seems best" (see page 332). Sunflowers may be planted in groups about the flower garden or in lines among the rows of vegetables; wild sarsaparilla and pokeberry along the boundary walls ; while if you have a corner somewhere in the fields that can be planted with buck- wheat and Japanes
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. Fhoto by Earnest Harold Baynes THE FOOD BELL "Baron von Berlepsch has invented a food bell that supplies grain, etc., automatically from a receptacle above, and which may be suspended from a tree or piazza roof or any other place that seems best" (see page 332). Sunflowers may be planted in groups about the flower garden or in lines among the rows of vegetables; wild sarsaparilla and pokeberry along the boundary walls ; while if you have a corner somewhere in the fields that can be planted with buck- wheat and Japanese millet, it will prove a great attraction, particularly in winter. FOOD-HOUSES AND SHELTERS In bad weather, however, particularly in the North, where we are so apt to be covered up with snow, more artificial means of feeding should be resorted to, and food stations, food-houses, and food shelters of various sorts should be estab- lished in proper places. If quail or grouse are to be fed, inconspicuous bough shel- ters may be built in protected places among the fields or woods most fre- quented by them, while about the house or among the neighboring plantations all sorts of devices may be resorted to. Baron von Berlepsch, in Germany, has invented a food-house, an adaptation of which, called the Audubon food-house, has been much used on this side of the water, and is most satisfactory (see page 327). It consists of a square hip roof, with vertical glass sides suspended be- neath and open at the bottom, the whole supported on a central rustic cedar post, encircled with food trays beneath the roof. The glass sides protect the food 31. 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 Society
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