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pigeon’s. A jury, mostly of blackbirds, found 
the charge “not proven,” and the case was dis- 
missed. I was convinced by the result of this 
trial that the only safe way would be to provide 
enough cherries for the birds and for the people 
too, and ordered fifty more trees for fall plant- 
ing. I found by experience, that if one would 
have bird neighbors (and who would not?), he 
must provide liberally for their wants and also 
for their luxuries. I have stolen a march as 
to the cherries by planting scores of mulberry 
trees, both native and Russian. Birds love mul- 
berries even better than they do cherries, and we 
now eat our pies in peace. ‘To make amends for 
this ruse, I have established a number of drink- 
ing fountains and free baths; all of which have 
helped to make us friends. 
In August I sold, near the top of a low mar- 
ket, 156 young hogs. At $4.50 per hundred, the 
bunch netted me $1807. They did not weigh 
quite as much as those sold the previous autumn, 
and I found two ways of accounting for this. 
The first and most probable was that fall pigs do 
not grow so fast as those farrowed in the spring. 
This is sufficient to account for the fact that the 
herd average was twenty pounds lighter than 
that of its predecessor. I could not, however, 
get over the notion that Anderson’s nervousness 
had in some way taken possession of the swine 
(we have Holy Writ for a similar case), and that 
they were wasted in growth by his spirit of 
