 ... and chipping-sparrows explore every tree in the old orchard. If the birds want to live with us, we should encourage them. The first thing to do is to let them alone. Let them be as free from danger and fear as you or I. Take the hammer off the old...  Annual Report - Page 421by New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Indiana. State Board of Agriculture - 1900 - 1122 pages
...encourage them. The first thing to do is to let them alcme. Let them be as free from danger as yon or I. Take the hammer off the old gun: give pussy so much to eat that she will not want to hunt for birds; keep the boys away who steal their eggs and the sportsmen who kill them, for... | |
 | New York (State) Dept. of Agriculture - 1901 - 680 pages
...bluebirds and wrens look into every crack and corner for a place in which to build, and the robbins and chippingsparrows explore every tree in the old...steal eggs and who carry sling-shots and throw stones. Bird houses. — For some kinds of birds we can build houses. Although birds may 7iot appreciate architecture,... | |
 | 1901 - 70 pages
...bluebirds and wrens look into every crack and corner for a place in which to build, and the robbins and chipping-sparrows explore every tree in the old...gun, give pussy so much to eat that she will not care — 50 — to hunt for birds, and keep away the boys who steal eggs and who carry sling-shots and throw... | |
 | Sarah E. Sprague - 1903 - 204 pages
...place again. They must be the same wrens that were here last year and the year before, for strangers could not make so much fuss over an old rail. The...to hunt for birds, and keep away the boys who steal 124 eggs and who carry sling-shots and throw stones. Plant trees and bushes about the borders of the... | |
 | Cornell University. College of Agriculture - 1904 - 618 pages
...from danger and fear as you or L Take the hammer off the old * Teachers' Leaflet No. 10, May, 1898. gun, give pussy so much to eat that she will not care...the back yard, the wary cat-bird may make its home. For some kinds of birds we can build houses. Some of the many forms which can be used are shown in... | |
 | Sarah E. Sprague - 1906 - 396 pages
...place again. They must be the same wrens that were here last year and the year before, for strangers could not make so much fuss over an old rail. The...the back yard, the wary catbird may make its home. For some kinds of birds we can build houses. These houses should be placed on poles or on buildings... | |
 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - 1906 - 268 pages
...look into every crack and corner for a place in which to build, and the robins and chipping sparrows explore every tree in the old orchard. If the birds...the back yard, the wary catbird may make its home. 150 prefer an elevation less than twelve feet. Birds which build in houses, aside from doves and pigeons,... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - 1906 - 164 pages
...to let them alone. Let them be as free from fear as you or I. Take the hammer off the old gun, and give pussy so much to eat that she will not care to hunt for birds. Keep away the boys that steal eggs, and carry guns, and throw stones. Plant trees and bushes about... | |
 | Mabel Osgood Wright - 1907 - 566 pages
...place again. They must be the same Wrens that were here last year and the year before, for strangers could not make so much fuss over an old rail. The...bushes about the borders of the place, and let some of thorn, at least, grow into tangles; then, even in the back yard, the wary Catbird may make its home.... | |
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