How to Attract the Birds 



THE SPARROW QUESTION 



Indeed, a great deal of nonsense is talked about 

 sparrows driving away other birds. Like the down- 

 trodden Italian and other peasants from the Old 



World, the sparrows are 

 prepared to live here 

 . where others would 



starve. They kill no 

 birds. We are too w^ont 

 to attribute the results 

 ot our own misdeeds or 

 shortcomings — the bar- 

 barities ot millinery 

 fashions, wanton slaugh- 

 ter masquerading as 

 sport, the lack of good 

 bird laws and the en- 

 forcing ot them, where 

 such exist — upon these 

 troublesome, noisy, 

 quarrelsome little feath- 

 ered gamins. Fitted to 

 survive after centuries 

 ot competitive struggle, thev cannot be extermi- 

 nated. As well try to eliminate that other trium- 

 phant European immigrant, the daisv, from our 

 fields. Just as the introduction of the honey bee 

 from Europe must cause our native flowers and in- 

 sects to undergo certain changes of structure and 

 habit, so the introduction of the English sparrow 

 means change, adaptation, to our native birds. In 

 spite of the sparrow^s, there is already noticeable a 



A liasket house 



