Building Houses for Birds— A 



At the first birdhouse building contest held in this country, in the State of Washington, 

 seven hundred and eighty-two birdhouses were built by as many boys. During the one day 



IX the Pugct Sound country the sever- 

 est winter of the last quarter century 

 has been producti\'e of a new con- 

 structive work, acquaintanceship with, 

 and love for birds. For the 

 first time in its history 



interest in its songsters. People every- 

 where fed and watered the birds. Back- 

 \ards were scraped free of snow so that 

 the robins, thrushes, blackbirds, blue- 

 jays, snowbirds, and even 

 the diminutix'e wren 



Twenty-five different models of birdhouses built by boys from one school in the Washington 

 contest. There are no two models of the same type and the designs are all original 



