How to Attract the Birds 



THE SPARROW QUESTION 



Indeed, a great deal of nonsense is talked about 

 sparrows driving away other birds. Like the down- 

 trodden Italian and other peasants from the Old 



World, the sparrows are 

 prepared to live here 

 where others would 

 starve. They kill no 

 birds. We are too wont 

 to attribute the results 

 of our own misdeeds or 

 shortcomings the bar- 

 barities ot millinery 

 fashions, wanton slaugh- 

 ter masquerading as 

 sport, the lack of good 

 bird laws and the en- 

 forcing of them, where 

 such exist upon these 

 troublesome, noisy, 

 quarrelsome little feath- 

 ered gamins. Fitted to 

 survive after centuries 



of competitive struggle, they cannot be extermi- 

 nated. As well try to eliminate that other trium- 

 phant European immigrant, the daisy, from our 

 fields. Just as the introduction of the honey bee 

 from Europe must cause our native flowers and in- 

 sects to undergo certain changes of structure and 

 habit, so the introduction of the English sparrow 

 means change, adaptation, to our native birds. In 

 spite of the sparrows, there is already noticeable a 



A basket house 



