ae nag Rabbits, 
fre hh 
. Would advise to put out corn in the ear for rabbits. 
e it will have the same effect on mice. 
. Jordon. My rabbits began on trees in a corn field before 
corn was gathered. 7 
ae Mr. U: nderwood. Have ike arsenic on sweet apples for pe a 
and cats for mice. 
WEDNESDAY EVENING. 
The parlors of the Y. M. C. A. having been retained for the pre- 
sentation of the following paper before that body, the Horticultu- 
ral Society held no session, but the members having generally 
accepted the invitation to attend the reading of the paper, Dr. 
Hatch has kindly consented to its publication in these Transactions | 
BIRDS OF MINNESOTA. 
READ BEFORE THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, JANUARY. 22, 1879, 
BY P. L. HATCH, M.D. 
Birds have always held a close relationship to man; whether economically or 
zesthetically considered. No one will question their presence in the Garden of 
Eden. A paradise of such material beauties as the pen of the inspired writer 
has given us, without birds, is inconceivable. We can have no doubt that at 
that sad hour 
“ When Nature from her seat, 
Sighing through all her works, 
Gave signs of woe that all was lost,”’ 
the sound of departing wings was the first to break the breathless silence of the 
dvomed Elysian. 
