Our Avian Creditors 



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Others with the dignitj^ and importance of the work, and has a good general 

 effect. The necessity for feeding the birds in winter is explained very care- 

 fully, and then a 

 few committees 

 are appointed to 

 arrange details. 

 One committee 

 devotes itself to ob- 

 taining bird food, 

 and money to buy 

 food, and some- 

 times calls to its 

 assistance such 

 available outsiders 

 as may be able to 

 help. There are 

 very few people 

 in any American 

 town who will re- 

 fuse to help such 

 work along in one 

 way or another, 

 if the matter is 

 brought directly to 

 their attention in 

 a proper way. It 

 is usually possible 

 to approach many 

 people personally; 

 but, in any case, 

 the school children 

 can be urged to 

 explain the matter 

 to their parents, 



and local papers are usually very willing to make known the needs of the 

 committee. Local grocers, butchers and grain -dealers I have found to be 

 among the most generous of contributors, and often, after they have given 

 all they can afford, they will sell to bird -feeders a considerable quantity of 

 food at cost. 



In the meantime, another committee is busy getting the names of 

 volunteers to distribute the food in the woods and fields. Here let me say 

 that this work is not, as a rule, suitable for small children, girls or women; 

 it should be done by strong, healthy boys and such men as can afford or will 



CHICKADEE FRIEND. THE RIGHT KIND OF A BIRD IN THE HAT 



Photographed by the author 



