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Cliff or Eaves Swallows. — These require wide eaves and a 

 strip of board or small timber nailed a foot below the junction 

 of the side and roof of the building. Mud does not stick well 

 to paint, hence the need of a supporting ledge. 



A Dorothy Perkins rose bush. Grown on a bird-house pole for 

 protection against cats. (After Our Dumb Animals.) 



Put Nesting Boxes on Poles. 



Experience with nesting boxes on trees, particularly in woods, 



has proved that they are occupied mainly by squirrels and 



mice or remain unused. These animals, as well as cats and 



sometimes rats, drive the birds out and sometimes destroy their 



