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inch to two or three in depth. It is best to set the pans 

 on blocks or stakes a few feet from the ground, so that they 

 will be out of the r.each of cats. 



Winter birds may be kept about our homes by fastening 

 up in trees suet or long shank bones sawed in two length- 

 wise. Chickadees, woodpeckers, and nuthatches will find 

 the feast, especially during stormy weather when the doors 

 to their own larders are locked with snow and sleet. 



Government Publications: Some Common Birds in their 

 Relation to Agriculture. Farmers' Bulletin, No. 34; The 

 Horned Larks and their Relation to Agriculture; The Food 

 of Nestling Birds; Birds as Weed Destroyers; The Bluejay 

 and Its Food; The Meadow Lark and Baltimore Oriole. 



Helpful Books: Birds of Village and Field, Florence 

 Merriam; Birds in their Relation to Man, Weed and Dear- 

 born; Handbook of North American Birds, Chapman. 



Colored Bird Plates may be obtained for two cents each 

 from A. W. Mumford, Chicago. 



