How to Attract the Birds 



seventy-three per cent of its diet, the remainder 

 being seeds of weeds chiefly, the farmer might as 

 well draw money out of the bank and throw it in 

 the sea as to allow the meadow-lark to be shot ; yet it 



An appetizing dinner 



has long been classed among game birds a target 

 for gunners. 



"The average annual loss which the chinch bug 

 causes to the United States cannot be less than 

 twenty million dollars," says Dr. L. O. Howard, of 



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