98 Birds Every Child Should Know 



The curculio, one of the worst enemies every 

 fruit grower has to fight, destroying as it does 

 millions of dollars worth of crops every year, 

 is practically unknown in that Georgia planter's 

 orchard. Some day farmers all over the 

 United States will wake up and copy his good 

 idea. 



A colony of martins circling about a house 

 give it a delightful home-like air. Their very 

 soft, sweet conversation with one another 

 as they fLy, sounds like rippling, musical 

 laughter. 



THE BARN SWALLOW 



Do you know where there is an old-fashioned, 

 weather-worn barn, with its hospitable doors 

 standing open, where you could not find at 

 least one pair of bam swallows at home beneath 

 its roof? These birds, you will notice, prefer 

 dilapidated old farm buildings, whose doors are 

 off their hinges, and whose loose shingles or 

 broken clapboards offer plenty of entrances 

 and exits. If you like to play aroimd a bam 

 as well as every child I know, you must be 

 already acquainted with the exquisite, dark 

 steel-blue swallows with glistening reddish buff 

 breasts, and deeply forked tails, that dart and 

 glide in and out of the openings, merrily twitter- 

 ing as they fly. While you tiimble about in the 



