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Of tlic portable sort, tlie feeding car made and 

 sold by Joseph H. Dodson, 701 Security Building. 

 Chicago, is to be recommended. The car is provided 

 with small wlieels which travel on :i wire, gravity 

 luing the propelling force. It can be run from a 

 window or other convenient point, and suspended in 

 .1 position which otherwise mighf be inaccessible. 



The automatic feeder made by the Maplewood Bio- 

 logical Laboratory. Stamford, Conn., is an adapt.ition 

 of the usual self-feeding hopper in use among jjoultry- 

 men. It is furnished with a wide board for protec- 

 tion from rain, and its use makes certain a sujiplv o: 

 food, even if it is not regularly visited by the host 



Suet holders furnish the 

 simjjlest and perhaps also 

 the best method of feed- 

 ing insectivorous birds, 

 such as woodpeckers and 

 nuthatches. The Simplex 

 Bird Apparatus Co., 

 Demarest, N. J., ami 

 Chas. E. White. Kenil- 

 worth. 111., make metal 

 baskets which are well 

 suited for the purpose. 



About New York, the 

 birds most likely to be at- 

 tracted to food depots are 

 the following: Blue jay. 



downy woodpecker, hairy 

 woodpecker, flicker, nut- 

 liateli. brown creeper, 

 chickadee, wliite-tiiroat 

 sparrow, song sparrow, 

 tree sparrow, junco, sis- 

 kin. puri)le finch and pos- 

 sibly the cardinal and 

 tufted titmouse. \Vood- 

 iers and nuth.itehcs 

 visit the suet chiefly, 

 blue jays will e.it almost 

 .mything. For the finches, 

 .1 mixture of v a r i o u s 

 seeds should be provided 

 —sunflower, hemp, canary and millet are .among the 

 best, although any nourisliing. assiniil.ible grain will 

 do. Bits of dry bread and nut me.its ;ire relished 

 by many birds. 



There can be no doubt that suitably placed bird 

 houses are a very potent factor in the encouragement 

 of birds. If the locality is ;it all favorable, and .a 

 little thought be given to construetion and es]ieeially 

 to location, it will be found th.it birds will take pos- 

 session of them. It is a strange fact that while birds 

 will frequently ignore elaborate structures, they often 

 will unhesit.itingly occupy the most un|)romisiug c.-ivi- 

 ties. Enii)ty cans, old hats, and the roughest of boxes, 

 seem to offer all that the home-seekiiiii; bird desires. 



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