FARMERS BULLETIN 



TABLE 1. Dimensions of nesting boxes for various species of birds. 



1 One or more sides open. 



'* All sides open. 



HOUSE PLANS. 



Possibilities in the way of improvising bird houses with very little 

 work are suggested in figures 1 and 2. Ordinary tomato cans treated 



in either of the ways here indicated will 

 be tenanted by wrens and bluebirds. 

 The cans ought 

 always to be 

 placed in shaded 



FIG. 1. Tomato can with circular piece 

 of board fitted in one end, to make 

 house for bluebirds or wrens . 



FIG. 2. Tomato can, with 

 one end removed, fas- 

 tened to top of post. Hole 

 cut in side for entrance. 

 Suitable for bluebirds 

 or wrens if put in shady 

 place. 



FIG. 3. Gourd for 

 martins. 



places, as the metal becomes 

 very hot in the sun. 



Bird houses in the South- 

 ern States have long been made from gourds. The 

 entrance is in the side and a drain hole in the bot- 

 tom, as shown in figure 3 . A piece of wire through 

 the neck for mounting it completes the house. A number of gourds 

 thus prepared and strung on a pole seems to make a satisf actory tene- 

 ment house for a colony of martins. Used singly they are equally 

 well adapted to wrens and bluebirds. While gourds are not durable 

 when exposed to the weather they are easily replaced. 



