ing the first year or two of its existence, the wild life does not 

 increase in numbers as rapidly as you had hoped. Like any legit- 

 imate enterprise, its growth may be slow, but keep everlastingly 

 at it. This is a work of cooperation and you must enlist in the 

 cause all of your friends who have a love for the wild creatures. 

 Among these you may be fortunate enough to find a civil engi- 

 neer and possibly a landscape architect. The former will be glad to 

 assist in the planning of roadways and the latter to suggest the 

 planting of proper shrubbery. Some of the proprietors should be 

 appointed as game wardens having full power to arrest and pros- 

 ecute violators, and thus not be entirely dependent upon the state 

 officers for the enforcement of law. 



Establish winter feeding stations for the birds and systematically 

 feed them. Place nesting-boxes in suitable places for the hole- 

 nesting birds, and bird baths in numerous places, when an abun- 

 dant natural supply of water is lacking. Keep the vermin reduced 

 in numbers, for when the useful birds become numerous, their 

 enemies likewise increase. Establish a small nursery, in which may 

 be propagated many species of trees and shrubs, the fruits and 

 seeds of which are attractive to both useful and gamebirds. From 

 this community nursery, as it might properly be called, plantings 

 could be made each year in various sections of the sanctuary. 



There are a number of native species of trees and shrubs, whose 

 berries and seeds form an important winter food supply of the 

 birds, and many of which retain their fruits until the advent of 

 spring. The following are indigenous to Southern New England, 

 and if not already found within the borders of a sanctuary, may be 

 easily transplanted, will thrive and become permanently estab- 

 lished: Bayberry, Ground Juniper, Barberry and Upland Cedar 

 or Savin. These are but a few of many species, both native and 

 exotic, a list of which is given in the chapter devoted to that sub- 

 ject in this volume. In many spots sheltered from the northerly 

 winds sow rye and buckwheat, each of course by itself. Along the 

 edges of the fields plant long rows of the large Russian sunflower 

 and in moist land sow Japanese millet. All of these pknts furnish 

 a food supply relished by birds of many species. 



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