or that "one-tenth of all our cereals, hay, cotton, 

 tobacco and general farm products is the yearly 

 tax levied by insects on our farms and gardens," 

 but they will gurgle with delight to know that their 

 own little gardens can be made to thrive and smile 

 and give forth more lettuce and leeks and merry 

 marigolds if "bird apartment houses" are put up 

 here and there, and everything done to encourage 

 bird families to move in and make themselves at 

 home. 



I am very glad to learn of the good work that you are 

 doing in establishing bird sanctuaries through the medium of 

 the Green Meadow Club. Sanctuaries furnish one of the 

 best means of increasing the numbers of some of our com- 

 mon birds, and are especially important in the more thickly 

 settled States. Their value is not measured bv size but by 

 the opportunities which thev afford birds to escape pursuit 

 and to find proper food and nesting sites. I trust that you 

 will be successful in your efforts to establish these sanc- 

 tuaries in many parts of the country. 



Yerv truly vours, 



T. S. Palmer, 



Assistant Chief, Bureau of Biological Suri 



U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



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