tanadian forestry Journal 



VOL. XV. 



OTTAWA, CANADA, SEPTEMBER, 1919. 



Nos. 8 and 9. 





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;i.s do more desirable species. 



HOW TO ATTRACT BIRDS TO THE HOME* 



B's P. A. Tavcrner. 



Arrangjing Nesting Quarters, Guarding Against 



Trespassers, Providing Food During 



Fall and Winter Seasons. 



When poor Tom Paine wrote "Home Sweet 

 Home," he sounded a note that found an echo 

 in every human heart. In the second stanza 

 he wrote: 



"The birds smgmg gaily, 

 That come to my call"; 

 thus suggesting the intimate association existing 

 between the sticks and stones of that which 

 we call "Home" and its animate surroundings. 

 In fact "Home" is not merely that shell of brick 

 and wood and plaster in which we abide and the 

 '^Tound that surrounds it, but includes also a 

 liost of associations of which we consciously 

 or subsconsciously feel the influence. A home 

 without these delicately haunting memories is 

 but a name, and one of the essentials to home 

 building and the development of its higher re- 

 lining influences is the creation of those subtle 



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intangibles that after all finally rule the world. 

 That birds are not the least important of these 

 influences is declared by all the poets and is 

 confirmed by our own experience. In the days 

 of careless childhood or busy young manhood, 

 we may not have particularly noted the common 

 birds about us, but in after life they have made 

 an indelible impression when the twittering of a 

 flock of swallows takes us back to the old 

 hay-mow with its attendant flight of birds or the 

 chatter of the kingbird reminds us of the orchard 

 with its refreshing shade and its noisy guardian 

 driving off intruders. 



From the purely esthetic side therefore, the 

 encouragement of birds about the home and the 

 introduction of the impressionable child mind 

 to thorn makes for stronger home ties and a 

 better coming generation, while the benefit of 

 having numerous feathered allies in our con- 

 stant fight against insect pests must be ac- 



