. Department circular. Agriculture. WmdoW 21 food sticks so placed. The hinged shelf for feeding birds at the window, supported at its outer edge by a light steel or brass wire rolled into the shape of a spring in the center, is said | to be sparrow-proof. (See Fig. 24.) This shelf is ap- parently unstable and shakes when the birds alight on it. The sparrows appear to fear the motion, while native birds do not. Mr. Wm. E. Saunders of London, On- tario, pours melted tallow^ or fat mixed with sunflower seeds upon a flat board with a perch to w'hich the native birds can cling, and then when the m
. Department circular. Agriculture. WmdoW 21 food sticks so placed. The hinged shelf for feeding birds at the window, supported at its outer edge by a light steel or brass wire rolled into the shape of a spring in the center, is said | to be sparrow-proof. (See Fig. 24.) This shelf is ap- parently unstable and shakes when the birds alight on it. The sparrows appear to fear the motion, while native birds do not. Mr. Wm. E. Saunders of London, On- tario, pours melted tallow^ or fat mixed with sunflower seeds upon a flat board with a perch to w'hich the native birds can cling, and then when the mixture has hard- ened fastens up the board in an inverted position. (Fig. 25.). Hi nqe .-fo° Board io"lonq by 6'hiqK Fig. 24. — Diagram of food shelf designed to repel the English sparrow. (Courtesy of ";) E Jb. -- ! li- -v- '' Fig. 25. — Feeding device to checkmate English sparrows. (Invented by Mr. Wm. E. Saunders.) INIethods of attracting Certain Desirable or BEAUTirrL Birds. Wild Fold. If wild fowl are to be attracted there must be a pool, lake, stream or river, or an arm of the sea. A small pond made by damming a brook will suffice. Here a few call ducks, or mal- lards, should be kept to decoy the wild birds. The pond may be surrounded with a fine-meshed wire fence, turned flat on the ground outside for at least 6 inches, to keep out natural ene- mies, and grain may be thrown into a foot or two of water where ducks or geese will readily find it and where land birds cannot get at it. It is important to use fine wire netting and cement at inlet and outlet so that large fish, turtles or minks. 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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