oto b\' Errnjit Harold Jiaynes 



A BI.UK.IAV FEl'liIXG OX SUl^T 



"Perhaps the simplest scheme of feeding, the least trouhle. and the most attractive to 

 numbers of birds, is the tj'ing of a piece of suet to a convenient limb, or perhaps tu the 

 balustrade of one's piazza, preferably in a protected spot and one that can at the same time 

 be easily "watched from some window" (see page 333' 



trays from thv weather and at tlie same 

 time admit light and allow of easy ol)- 

 servation. These, when ])laced among 

 the shrubbery about one's house, pro\e 

 most attractive. 



Baron von Herlepsch has invented also 

 a food bell that supplies grain, etc., auto- 

 matically from a rece|)tacle above, and 

 which may be sus])en(le(l from a tree or 

 piazza roof, or an)- other convenient place 

 (see page 331). 



A\'indow boxes are a never-ceasing 

 si iinx-e of enjo\nient. Air. Ernest Harold 

 T'ia_\-nes built the first I ever saw at his 

 hnnie in Meriden, X. H., a particularly 

 attractive one, which has helped him t(T 

 become intimate with an astonishing va- 

 riety of Ijirrls (see page 336). 



I'ood shelves may be put up in all sorts 

 of ]jrotected places — about houses, against 

 tree trunks, etc.: and a food car, a sort 

 of moN'ing free-lunch counter, which mav 

 be run con\-enienth' on a wire from 

 window to neighboring tree, is actually 



manufactured by one enterprising gentle- 

 man ; and the same man Ijuilds also a 

 sheltered food-house that turns with the 

 \vind like a weather vane, so as to present 

 always a lee side for the better protec- 

 tion of the birds (see page 326). 



r>aron von ]'.erle|isch originateil also 

 what he calls a fo<^icl tree, a freshl_\- cut 

 e\'ergreen, preferably s|iruce or fir, or 

 perhaps a iliscarded Christmas tree, set 

 up in some con\'enient ]ilace, o\'er which 

 has been poured hot, and then allowed to 

 cool, a mixture of food that is attractive 

 to both insectivorous and gramini\-orous 

 birds, the recei]it for which is gi\ en in 

 the little book, "Mow to Attract and Pro- 

 tect A\'ild Birds" :* 



"White bread (dried and ground), 4^ 2 

 oz. ; meat (dried and ground), 3 (iz. ; 

 hemp, (1 oz. : crushed hemp, 3 oz. : maw, 

 3 oz. : iioii|iy flour, Mj oz. ; imllet ( white) 



* I'or sale by the National .Association nf 

 .\udubon Societies, 1974 Broadwa>', New Y..rk 

 City, N. V, Price, 40 cents. 



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