First Supplement 



TO 



GLEANINGS No. 5 



ISSUED NOVEMBER I, 1909 



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The Purple Martin 



(Progne subis) 



and Houses for Its 

 Summer Home 



BY 



J. WARREN JACOBS 



Waynesburg, Pa. 



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HAVING access to the correspondence of the Jacobs Bird House 

 Company, I wrote each purchaser of a martin house for a report 

 on the result of the first season's experiment, intending to make 

 use of the items in the company's new 1910 catalogue. 



However valuable these reports might be as testimonials in a 

 catalogue soliciting patronage for our bird houses, I have concluded 

 the information is too valuable to waste in that manner. Therefore, 

 with the object in view of putting this information in appreciative 

 form for martin lovers, I have decided to issue this supplement to 

 "Gleanings No. 5", incorporating the main portions of these reports and 

 adding such items of interest, coming to hand, which will be of as- 

 sistance to persons desiring information on the martin subject. 



Copyright 1909, by J. Warren Jacobs. 



