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boxes will shelter many a bird from winter storms. Nesting material, such 

 as straw, feathers, waste string etc., should be hung on limbs during the 

 nesting season. It will soon be utilized. Having made a locality attractive 

 to birds they must be protected and fostered. Birds soon learn to love a 

 place where they receive a measure of protection from their enemies. We 

 may protect them : 



1 By doing away with cats, so far as possible 



2 By stopping promiscuous gunning 



3 By suppressing bird-egging boys 



4 By keeping hawks, crows and jays within bounds. 



It is well not only to have a variety of trees in your woodland, but also 

 to have portions of it in different stages of growth. A small patch of 

 ground covered with young sprouts furnishes a desirable breeding place for 

 such birds as the indigo bird, brown thrasher, towhee and several warblers, 

 all of which may be very useful in adjoining woodland. If each farm, 

 wooded or otherwise, could be ideally situated and cultivated, with the pro- 

 tection and accommodation of birds always in view, it is doubtful if paris 

 green and other insecticides would find a ready market in the commonwealth, 

 except, perhaps, in such cases as that of the gypsy moth, where a man dis- 

 turbs the balance of nature by introducing a new pest from a foreign shore. 



REMEDIAL MEASURES 



The conditions under which trees grow along our streets and in our 

 parks are so very different from those obtaining in nature that methods of 

 value in one place could not be tolerated in the other. The comparatively 

 high value of individual trees in streets and parks warrants much larger 

 expenditures or more labor than could be advised in the forest. 

 Street and park trees 



The following paragraphs apply in particular to the more highly prized 

 trees of our roadsides, lawns and parks and the recommendations are not 

 intended for the forester. 



Methods against biting and sucking insects. Practical considerations 

 compel the recognition of two classes of insects, the biting or devouring and 

 the sucking species. The work of the former is characterized by the 

 removal of more or less tissue from the part attacked, while the latter never 

 do this, though they frequently cause wilting and discoloring in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the injury. Generally speaking, biting insects can be con- 

 trolled by spraying infested plants with arsenate of lead, paris green, london 



