Photograph by Thomas E. Mair and Son 



A JUNCO VISITINX AN AUDUBON FOOD-HOUSE 



"The Audubon food-house has been much used on this side of the water and is most 

 satisfactory. It consists of a square hip roof, with vertical glass sides suspended beneath 

 and open at the bottom, the whole supported on a central rustic cedar post, encircled with 

 food trays beneatli the roof. The glass sides protect the food trays from the weather and 

 at the same time admit light and allow of easy observation. These, when placed among the 

 shrubbery about one's house, prove most attractive" (see page 169). 



its berries toward the winter supply of 

 food. 



There is a huge hill at the edge of the 

 sand dunes at Ipswich, Mass., swept by 

 all the storms that come in from over the 

 ocean, which years ago was as bare as a 

 billiard ball, but upon one side of which 

 the enterj^rising owner set out a large 

 plantation of evergreens. Today that 

 hillside is a Mecca for the birds from 

 miles around, and noted among the bird 

 lovers of the region for its varying bird 

 life both winter and summer. 



From an artistic standpoint, also, the 

 use of evergreens is to be recommended. 

 In these days, when there seems to be 

 such an e.xodus from city to country, why 



shouldn't our country liomes be made to 

 look as attractive in winter as in sum- 

 mer? While we of the North may not in 

 winter be surrounded by the verdure of 

 summer, w-e need not content ourselves 

 with the bare poles of deciduous growth. 

 Evergreens protect us and delight our 

 eyes with their color and varying lights 

 and shadows, and what is more beautiful 

 than a i)ine wood or group of evergreens 

 after a snow-storm? 



Those of us who possess farms, while 

 naturally jealous of every encroachment 

 on our fields, can always find some place 

 which may be planted. The immediate 

 surroundings of our farm buildings are 

 in many cases much too bare and bleak. 



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