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iiiioratc farther South, sonio of thoni stay all winter even 

 in this northern climate. It is full time this matter were 

 considered and the vexation on account of the loss of u 

 fcAV cherries or other fruit, ])revente(l fi'oni avenuin^i' itself 

 iu a \va\' that Itriuirs so irreat evil. 



All that is needed to reef ify tlic luauy errors so conuuon, 

 is a careful aud unprejudiced examination of the ({uestion. 

 It luay be true that a jx-rson who raises small fruits as an 

 essential ])art of his business, receives more harm Ihiui 

 ffood, from the birds, but I find it haiv] to believe this for 

 it seems as if th(> injury occasioned by an uucliecked in- 

 crease of the cankerworms nud various other like insects 

 would l)e areatei' than the worst inflicted ))y the birds. 

 Indeed it is ditiicult to see how any fi'iu't at all could be 

 raised, if the ravajres of the "worms Avere unchecked by them 

 and for this reason any one who meets with considerable 

 losses from them may console himself with the thouirht 

 that in all probal)iIity he would have had non(> at all if the 

 birds had all been killed a season or two before, as he 

 sometimes wishes they had l)een, so that all that he is 

 able to gather of his truit is so much saved. 



A bird (juite as nmch disliked by fruit irrowers as the 

 robin is the Cedar Bird, or Cherry Bird, so called on ac- 

 count of its fondness for cherries and the l)erries of the 

 Ked Cedar. These birds come from the South quite 

 early in the sprins: in small Hocks and remain all sum- 

 mer. During most of this time they live u\)(m injects 

 and are all the while of great service but in cherry time 

 they help themselves to their favorite fruit and then all 

 their good deeds are forgotten and they too often fall vic- 

 tims to unjust condemnation. I think that nothing more 

 is needful to secure the protection instead of destruction 

 of these birds, than for anv one to watch them closelv, not 

 merely during the cherry season l)ut all the while they 

 are with ns from early spring till autumn. There are 

 man\- who rarely if ever see this and other ])irds except 

 durins: the few da^s, or weeks at most, in which thev are 



